Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

A short but detailed look at women in the great outdoors.

In this Norton Short, Miles touches on figures we know well, like Harriett Tubman and Louisa May Alcott; adds context to icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, but also talks about more underappreciated figures like the indigenous women’s basketball team that beat all white challengers in the 1904 World’s Fair, or Anishinaabe poet and writer Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. She even comes forward to activists such as Dolores Huerta and Detroit’s own Grace Lee Boggs. This is only 180 pages (or about 4 hours as an audiobook) but it’s packed with great information and argues that everyone deserves access to outdoor spaces.