Del Norte Public Library

These 25 pioneer women traveled across the plains, courageously raised their families and all buried on the lonely banks of Beaver Creek, near Penrose, Colorado. They left a heritage of faith, courage and perseverance.

""I am the daugher of my father's fourth plural wife, twenty-eighth of forty-eight children - a middle kid, you might say." So begins this memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred. Since polygamy was abolished by manifesto in 1890, this is a story of secrecy and lies, of poverty and imprisonment and government raids. When raids threatened, the families were forced to scatter from their pastoral...

Information about the men, women and children buried in the Upper, Middle and Lower Beaver Creek Cemeteries in Fremont County, Colorado.

Hombrecito, raised to be a warrior, thinks only of revenge until his friend Rufus Pike is killed helping him avenge his father's murder. Fearing discovery, Hombrecito and Yellow Boy vanish into the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico with Sac Langeford, a young woman they save from an Apache raid. Helping Sac recover her little brother stolen by the raiders, Hombrecito begins an odyssey across the Sierra Madre into battles with deadly enemies and to love...

Instead of talking about women's rights, these frontier women grabbed the opportunity to become landowners by homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s. Here they tell their stories in their own words -- through letters and articles of the time -- of adventure, independence, foolhardiness, failure, success, and freedom. - Publisher.

"Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846-47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen's story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman's life writ large, one whose impossible balancing...