Frontier grit: the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women

Aunt Clara Brown : a woman in a thousand

Charley Parkhurst : most celebrated stagecoach driver in the West

Luzena Stanley Wilson : ever-resourceful

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton : the first Mexican-American novelist

Abigail Scott Duniway : Oregon Trail suffragette

Mother Jones : she could not be silenced

Nellie Cashman : gold rush "boomer"

Mary Hallock Foote : mining town author and illustrator

Martha Hughes Cannon : frontier doctor, state senator, women's rights activist

Zitkala-Sa : "Red Bird"

Donaldina Cameron : the most loved and feared woman in Chinatown

Makaopiopio : the spirit of Aloha.