Bold Women Series (4 books) -
Michigan, Texas, Colorado, California a unque resource for any library 

Bold Women in Michigan by Virginia Law Burns 
Courageous. committed help make Michigan what it is today. 
Bold Women in Michigan tells the stories of fifteen of them from fur traders to poets, soldiers to senators.  Their stories will impress you and make you wonder what your own contribution might be.
paper, 148 pages, pub.2006

Bold Women In Texas by Don Blevins
From artists to athletes, cattle queens to Congress women the eleven women helped make what it is today.  Overcoming pressures and prejudice they pushed through to carve their own paths and achieve their personal dreans,  Their inspiring stories prove that women can accomplish anything when they dare to be Bold.
paper, 137 pages, pub. 2012

Bold Women in Colorado by Phyllis. J. Perry 
From Pioneers to playwrights from educattors to entrepreneurs, these ten heroines helped make Colorado what it is today.Overcoming pressures and prejudice they pushed through to carve their own paths and achieve their personal dreans, Their inspiring stories prove that women can accomplish anything when they dare to be Bold.
paper, 120 pages, pub,. 2012

Bold Women in California by Kay Moore 
From Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut to Yoshiko Uchida, Japanese interment camp survivor turned childrens's author, to Elvida Virginia Mugarrieta, who dressed as a man in order to do things that women of the time could not do, the thirteen women portrayed  in this colletion broke down barriers of sexism, racism, and political oppression o emerge as heroines of their own time. Each and every one of these stories unique as they are, show ways in which women have creatd lasting change and reveal what whome can do when they dare to be bold. 
paper, 170 pages, 2017