Pilots, activists, oil magnates, storytellers, scientists, ranchers, daughters, mothers – the number of women who have affected or influenced the history of our state is as vast as the Texas landscape itself. These women fought for gender equality and shattered glass ceilings, creating new opportunities for those who followed.

This first eBook of the Women Across Texas History series, Volume 1: Nineteenth Century and Before, features biographies of women who represented women’s public and private roles including:

• A number of biographies on many of the prominent women of early Texas, such as Tamar Morgan, Emily Austin Bryan Perry, and Ellen Lawson Dabbs

• Thirty-seven entries from the Handbook of Texas and three articles from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly that feature a number of diverse ways women have contributed to Texas history.

• More than 100 pages by historians that note the influence of women prior to and throughout nineteenth century Texas.

Table of Contents

1. María de Jesús de Agreda
2. Angelina
3. Santa Adiva
4. Emily Austin Perry
5. Jane Cazneau
6. Sarah Bowman
7. Emily D. West
8. Emily West de Zavala
9. Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson
10. Mary Maverick
11. Margaret Houston
12. Tamar Morgan
13. Frances Cox Henderson
14. Cynthia Ann Parker
15. Petra Vela de Vidal Kenedy
16. Zilpha Husk
17. Rachel Hamilton Hornsby
18. Josefa (Chipita) Rodríguez
19. Salomé Ballí Young
20. Henrietta Chamberlain King
21. Mary Ann (Molly) Goodnight
22. Elizabeth (Lizzie) E. Johnson Williams
23. Myra Maybelle (Belle) Starr
24. Angelina Dickinson
25. Jenny Bland Beauchamp
26. Carry Nation
27. Bettie Munn Gay
28. Mary Elizabeth Lease
29. Belle M. Burchill
30. Ellen Lawson Dabbs
31. Lucy E. Parsons
32. Elisabet Ney
33. Mariana Folsom
34. Mary Eleanor Brackenridge
35. Betty Eve Ballinger
36. Hally Ballinger Perry
37. Teresa Urrea
38. Southwestern Historical Quarterly Selected Articles