Women on the Prairie
Ward McLendon
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
The American prairie is usually told as a man’s story—wagons, rifles, land claims, and legends. But the prairie was also a woman’s world: a place of childbirth and blizzards, loneliness and community,...
Location:
United States
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Ward McLendon
Digital Voice Vivie E
The Frontier Chronicles
Unbound Press
English Audiobooks
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Description:
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The American prairie is usually told as a man’s story—wagons, rifles, land claims, and legends. But the prairie was also a woman’s world: a place of childbirth and blizzards, loneliness and community, hunger and hard-won pride. In Women on the Prairie, the frontier comes into focus through the lives of the women who lived it. They hauled water, broke soil, taught children, buried the dead, and held families together through drought, debt, illness, and isolation. Some arrived with hope, others with resignation. Many discovered that survival required a new kind of toughness—and a new definition of freedom. Built from vivid firsthand accounts and clear historical context, this book restores women to the center of the settlement story, not as side characters, but as the force that made prairie life possible. Duration - 4h 6m. Author - Ward McLendon. Narrator - Digital Voice Vivie E. Published Date - Wednesday, 21 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 Unbound Press ©.
Language:
English
Preface and Introduction
Duration:00:07:30
Introduction
Duration:00:01:42
Chapter 1 — Across the Overland Trails: Women and the Great Western Migration
Duration:00:26:28
Chapter 2 —Amelia Stewart Knight: The Diarist of the Oregon Trail
Duration:00:24:07
Chapter 3—Narcissa Whitman: Missionary, Trailblazer, Martyr
Duration:00:12:43
Chapter 4 — Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Real Woman Behind the Myth
Duration:00:14:45
Chapter 5 —Susan Shelby Magoffin: The Wandering Princess: Part II — Women Between Worlds: Captivity, Adoption, and the Human Cost of Cultural Collision
Duration:00:15:38
Chapter 6 — Cynthia Ann Parker: Captured by Comanche, Mother of a Future Chief, Torn Between Worlds
Duration:00:19:29
Chapter 7— Susan La Flesche Picotte, First Native American Woman Physician in the United States
Duration:00:20:03
Chapter 8— Olive Oatman: The Blue-Tattooed Survivor Who Lived With The Mohave
Duration:00:20:37
Chapter 9 — Sarah Winnemucca: Northern Paiute Diplomat, Interpreter, and Author: Part III — Courage, Conflict, and Cause: Women Who Shaped Frontier Politics, Justice, and War
Duration:00:19:27
Chapter 10 — Susannah Dickinson: The Alamo Survivor
Duration:00:14:13
Chapter 11— Delia Ann Webster: The Underground Railroad Operative Who Defied Slavery
Duration:00:15:59
Chapter 12 — Eliza Farnham: Prison Reformer on a Gold Rush Frontier
Duration:00:16:41
Chapter 13 — Clara Brown: Angel of the Rockies and Builder of Colorado’s Black Community: Closing Thoughts
Duration:00:13:06
Closing Thoughts
Duration:00:03:58