Examines various types of dwellings in western Northern America during the nineteenth century, discussing their construction and design as well as the lives of the settlers who lived in them.

Presents an account of frontier life for women in the American West through brief biographies of fifteen famous individuals, including Calamity Jane, Mary Fields, Mary Elizabeth Lease, Lola Montez, Lotta Crabtree, Dona Maria Gertrudes "La Tules" Barcelo, Annie Oakley, Belle Starr, Polly Pry, Sarah Winnemucca, Carry Nation, Mary Ellen Pleasant, The-Other-Magpie, Nellie Cashman, and Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris.

Explores the experiences of women who lived on the American frontier as homesteaders, ranchers, outlaws, miners, and reformers, including Sacajawea, Narcissa Whitman, Calamity Jane, and Nellie Cashman.

Collects information about several pioneer women, including Narcissa Whitman, Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Bethenia Owens-Adair, Susan LaFlesche Picotte, Esther Morris, and Abigail Scott Duniway.

Describes the choices and decisions the pioneers faced as they traveled to the American West and built settlements there. Includes activities.