Heroism of a pioneer woman

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Title: Heroism of a pioneer woman
Creator: Grosvenor & Telfer
Abstract: ""In the meantime his heroic wife was busily engaged in defending the door against the efforts of the only remaining Indian, whom she so severely wounded, with the ax, that he was soon glad to retire.""
Description: P. 155.
Extent: 1 plate
25 cm.
b&w illustration
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Zc20 852ho
Collection Title: Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and interesting events in Western history ... to which is appended historical and descriptive sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah, and California. By
Collection / Other Creator: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Collection Created: Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851

Format: still image
Genre: Illustrations
Intaglio prints
Subject (Geographic): America --Discovery and exploration
Mississippi River Valley --History
West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic): Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.)
Indians of North America

Access: Public
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