The Conifer Historical Society and Museum Virtual Book Club meets the last Tuesday of even numbered months at 6:30pm. Join us!

On 10/26 at 6:30 PM, we will be discussing Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, By Dorothy Wickenden.

Free! Registration Required to receive meeting link - https://www.coniferhistoricalsociety.org/rsvp/ After you RSVP, you will receive the meeting link.

In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the West.

Book available for loan through local libraries, Amazon, and eBay.