Describes the heroic acts, brilliant achievements, and colorful personalities of obscure women involved in the settlement and growth of America. This is a book that looks at what women have contributed willing brave hardships side by side with the men. cheering them on in the face of all types of dangers. 

A Quaker woman carries to George Washington the news of a surprise British stack:

A quite New England girl writes poetry as she teaches school on the Illinois prairies:

A Tennessee patriot hurriedly outfits her husband and sons to fight the British, while spinning the wool for uniforms. 

Only a few of the women in this book are not well known, most of them were not great leaders, but ordinary people like ourselves. It is from them that we can best learn what is meant to set sail for unexplored continents, to rear a family in the Indian country, to live through the tragedy of the civil War as abolitionist, plantation mistress, or slave.