Women Pioneers of Public Education

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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Beginnings A House of Many Uses Town and School in a Wilderness A Settlement Takes Hold At High Tide School and Town in the Eighties A School in Crisis The Turbulent Nineties Silverton's Life at Century's End Silverton Enters the 20th Century Public Schooling's Triumph: High School Graduation Looking Backward and Looking Forward