ANNIE BIDWELL

WHAT I DID?

I TAUGHT ENGLISH TO THE NATIVE CHILDREN.

CHURCH

MY JOURNEY

The pioneer women left in order to find new opportunities, jobs, and homes.

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• The journey lasted for six months
• Wagon space was very limited.
• We left a lot of things we had behind.
• We covered about 2,000 miles.

TRAIL CONDITIONS

• There was a lot of disease.
• People drowned crossing rivers.
• There were buffalo stampedes.
• People froze to death.
• The trail was littered.

WHAT WE DID.

• We were expected to do the work we did back home.
• We had to watch children.
• Wash the clothes.
• Find and prepare the food.

BIDDY MASON

• Biddy mason was a free slave and lived in California.
• Her owner wanted to bring her back to Texas.
• California is a free state, Texas is for slavery.
• She went to court and won the right to stay.

AFTER WE MOVED WEST.

AND LIBRARIES

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• This journey changed me and the women.
• The hardships of the trail brought out our strengths.
• We found abilities we didn't know we possessed.

WHAT ELSE I DID.

• I helped give women a right to vote.
• Wyoming territory led the way to give that right in 1869.

BEFORE I DIED.