Winning the Wilderness

Margaret nee Hill McCarter (1860-1938) was a Topeka novelist. She was born in Indiana, attended Earlham College for two years, attended State Normal in Terre Haute and then began teaching for elementary students. Later she became the head of the English department at Goshen High School and in 1888 became the head of the English department at Topeka High School. Her works include: The Cottonwood's Story (1903), Cuddy's Baby (1907), Cuddy and Other Stories (1908), In Old Quivira (1908), The Prince of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas (1910), The Peace of the Solomon Valley (1911), A Wall of Men (1912), A Master's Degree (1913), Winning the Wilderness (1914), The Corner Stone (1915), Vanguards of the Plains: A Romance of the Old Santa Fe Trail (1917), The Reclaimers (1918), Paying Mother (1920), Homeland (1922) and Widening Waters (1924).