O MY AMERICA! Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World

Wheeler embarks on a journey across the U.S., guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west. Women such as: Fanny Trollope, author; Fanny Kemble, actress and abolitionist; Harriet Martineau, the radical sociologist; Rebecca Burlend, homesteader; Isabella Bird, traveler; and Catherine Hubback, novelist. Well illus.