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William Worthington Fowler

1833–1881

Best known for lively histories of American life, this 19th-century writer turned frontier hardship, finance, and everyday heroism into vivid nonfiction. His most remembered work shines a light on women’s experiences in the early American West.

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Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"

Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"

by William Worthington Fowler

About the author

Born in Middlebury, Vermont, on June 24, 1833, William Worthington Fowler was an American prose writer who died in Durham, Connecticut, on September 18, 1881.

He wrote across a wide range of subjects, including American frontier life and Wall Street. Sources connected with his work and legacy identify books such as Woman on the American Frontier, Ten Years in Wall Street, Inside Life in Wall Street, and Fighting Fire.

Today, he is most often associated with Woman on the American Frontier, a collection of historical sketches that focuses on the courage, labor, and suffering of women in early American settlement. The book stands out for shifting attention toward lives that many histories of his era pushed to the margins.