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Women Pioneers of Public Education

How Culture Came to the Wild West

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  • © 2008

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  1. Jurgen Herbst
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 1-8

  3. Beginnings

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 9-17

  4. A House of Many Uses

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 19-27

  5. Town and School in a Wilderness

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 29-35

  6. A Settlement Takes Hold

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 37-49

  7. At High Tide

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 51-62

  8. School and Town in the 1880s

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 63-74

  9. A School in Crisis

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 75-88

  10. The Turbulent 1890s

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 89-103

  11. Silverton’s Life at Century’s End

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 105-120

  12. Silverton Enters the Twentieth Century

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 121-133

  13. Public Schooling’s Triumph: High School Graduation

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 135-144

  14. Postscript

    • Jurgen Herbst
    Pages 145-156

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 157-217
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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.

About the author

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.

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