Woman on the American frontier. A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the republic."
Woman on the American Frontier is a 1877 Hartford illustrated history by William Worthington Fowler, written for general American readers and recounting the lives of pioneer women. The four pictures are black-and-white wood engravings printed sideways on the page, showing settlers fleeing or fighting, a domestic interior with a family, mounted riders in rocky terrain, and a woman at a doorway beside a seated man. A designer might take their dramatic line work, crowded group compositions, and period frontier costume as reference for Western-themed graphics.
