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

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-8 Beginnings....Pages 9-17 A House of Many Uses....Pages 19-27 Town and School in a Wilderness....Pages 29-35 A Settlement Takes Hold....Pages 37-49 At High Tide....Pages 51-62 School and Town in the 1880s....Pages 63-74 A School in Crisis....Pages 75-88 The Turbulent 1890s....Pages 89-103 Silverton’s Life at Century’s End....Pages 105-120 Silverton Enters the Twentieth Century....Pages 121-133 Public Schooling’s Triumph: High School Graduation....Pages 135-144 Postscript....Pages 145-156 Back Matter....Pages 157-217