Greetings: I thought you might find interesting the following :

    Outrageous Women of Colonial America, by Mary Rodd
Furbee, has been published by John Wiley & Sons. The paperback book is
geared for children
ages 9-14.
    Shawnee Capitive: The Story of Mary Ingles, another book by
Furbee, has also been released by Morgan Reynolds Publishing of North
Carolina.
    Outrageous Women of Colonial America features 14 women of diverse
regions, races, professions and backgrounds, including two women of western
Virginia.
    The women featured in the book were puritan preachers, eastern
aristocrats, native queens, and backwoods settlers. They were English,
Scottish, African and Indian. They were rich, poor, slave and free.
Some were rebels with a cause; others were loyal to a distant king.
    Period etchings and original drawings illustrate the biographical
sketches in each chapter. Some, of the featured women, for example First
Lady Abigail Adams and religious dissident Anne Hutchinson, are well-known
historical figures.
    Other women featured in the book are comparatively obsure, yet their
dramatic stories say much about the unsung courage of women in early
American history. The Wampanoag chief Weetamoo of New England led her tribe
in battle against encroaching white settlers. Southern plantation owner
Eliza Pinckney embraced the profession of botany -- while operating three
plantations -- and domesticated new breeds of plants. Pirate Anne Bonney
cast aside her background and sailed the high seas. Slave Elizabeth Freeman
took on the institution of slavery in the courts -- and won. And two
frontier heroines of the western Virginia frontier -- Mary Ingles and Anne
Bailey -- had dramatic escapades.
    Furbee also is the author of Women of the American Revolution, Shawnee
Captive: The Story of Mary Draper Ingles, and the forthcoming: Wild Rose:
The Story of Nancy Ward and the Cherokee Nation, Anne Bailey: Frontier
Scout, and Outrageous Women of the American Frontier. She lives in
Morgantown, West Virginia, where she is a clinical instructor and
public-relations specialist at the West Virginia University School of
Journalism.

Mary Rodd Furbee, WVU Clinical Instructor/Author
112 Martin Hall, School of Journalism
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
1-304-293-3505, ext. 5403
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