Women Pioneers of Public Education: How Culture Came to the Wild West - Paperback

by J. Herbst (Author)

The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the centre and sustaining force of the town's community life from its beginning in the 1870s to the present day.

Author Biography

JURGEN HERBST is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Professional Associate of Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, USA.