author
Caroline Louise Marshall
b. 1849
Best known for spirited stories of girls making their way in the American West, this late-19th-century writer brought ranch life and homesteading adventure to young readers. Her surviving books suggest a clear interest in independence, frontier settings, and capable heroines.
1 Audiobook
Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim: A Story for Girls
by Caroline Louise Marshall
About the author
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1849, Caroline Louise Marshall was an American author whose known works include The Girl Ranchers of the San Coulee (1897) and Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim (1899). Library and catalog records also identify her as Caroline Louise Marshall, Mrs., and public-domain listings show that at least one of her books has remained in circulation through digital archives.
Marshall wrote for young readers at a time when stories of the West were especially popular. The titles associated with her focus on ranching, homesteading, and girls taking active roles in frontier life, which gives her fiction an energetic, adventurous feel.
Not much detailed biographical information was easy to confirm from reliable online sources beyond her birth year, birthplace, and bibliography. Even so, the record of her work points to a writer interested in giving girls center stage in stories of self-reliance and life on the western frontier.