The Women's Tale:

Innocent women and children belonging both to the nomadic tribal nations of the Great Plains and the pioneer settlements developed by European Americans were caught in the middle of the great contest to control the Wild West. Learn "who was frightening whom" and the true story of the ordeal and resiliency faced by women of the frontier, in particular for those who lived near or traveled the Overland Trail routes, such as the Santa Fe Trail.

Photos

1. Elizabeth Inman Mathewson, wife of the original "Buffalo Bill" lived along the Santa Fe Trail

2. Libby Custer, wife of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was in central Kansas in 1867

3. George Bent and his Cheyenne wife, Magpie.

4. Sister Euphrosyne Thompson, SL, one of many missionaries to travel the Santa Fe Trail.

5. Araphoe leader, Powder Face and his wife

6. Two southern Cheyenne girls

7. Southern Cheyenne leader and wife

8. Photo of Lakota woman with "Peace Commissioners" at Fort Laramie

American Caravan - Women's Tale