Produced by Mike Lough THE STORY OF A PIONEER By Anna Howard Shaw, D.D., M.D. With The Collaboration Of Elizabeth Jordan TO THE WOMEN PIONEERS OF AMERICA They cut a path through tangled underwood Of old traditions, out to broader ways. They lived to here their work called brave and good, But oh! the thorns before the crown of bays. The world gives lashes to its Pioneers Until the goal is reached--then deafening cheers. Adapted by ANNA HOWARD SHAW. CONTENTS I. FIRST MEMORIES II. IN THE WILDERNESS III. HIGH-SCHOOL AND COLLEGE DAYS IV. THE WOLF AT THE DOOR V. SHEPHERD OF A DIVIDED FLOCK VI. CAPE COD MEMORIES VII. THE GREAT CAUSE VIII. DRAMA IN THE LECTURE FIELD IX. "AUNT SUSAN" X. THE PASSING OF "AUNT SUSAN" XI. THE WIDENING SUFFRAGE STREAM XII. BUILDING A HOME XIII. PRESIDENT OF "THE NATIONAL" XIV. RECENT CAMPAIGNS XV. CONVENTION INCIDENTS XVI. COUNCIL EPISODES XVII. VALE! ILLUSTRATIONS REVEREND ANNA HOWARD SHAW IN HER PULPIT ROBES LOCH-AN-EILAN CASTLE DR SHAW'S MOTHER, NICOLAS SHAW, AT SEVENTEEN ALNWICK CASTLE DR. SHAW AT THIRTY-TWO DR. SHAW AT FIFTY DR. SHAW AND "HER BABY"--THE DAUGHTER OF RACHEL FOSTER AVERY DR. SHAW'S MOTHER AT EIGHTY DR. SHAW'S FATHER AT EIGHTY DR. SHAW'S SISTER MARY, WHO DIED IN 1883 LUCY E. ANTHONY, DR. SHAW S FRIEND AND "AUNT SUSAN'S" FAVORITE NIECE THE WOOD ROAD NEAR DR. SHAW'S CAPE COD HOME, THE HAVEN DR. SHAW'S COTTAGE, THE HAVEN, AT WIANNO, CAPE COD--THE FIRST HOME SHE BUILT GATE ENTRANCE TO DR. SHAW'S HOME AT MOYLAN THE SECOND HOUSE THAT DR. SHAW BUILT SUSAN B. ANTHONY MISS MARY GARRETT, THE LIFE-LONG FRIEND OF MISS THOMAS MISS M. CAREY THOMAS, PRESIDENT OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ELIZABETH CADY STANTON CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT LUCY STONE MARY A. LIVERMORE FOUR PIONEERS IN THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT FIREPLACE IN THE LIVING-ROOM, SHOWING AUNT SUSAN'S" CHAIR HALLWAY IN DR. SHAW'S HOME AT MOYLAN DR. SHAW'S HOME (ALNWICK LODGE) AND HER TWO OAKS THE VERANDA AT ALNWICK LODGE SACCAWAGEA ALNWICK LODGE, DR. SHAW'S HOME THE ROCK-BORDERED BROOK WHICH DR. SHAW LOVES THE STORY OF A PIONEER I. FIRST MEMORIES My father's ancestors were the Shaws of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins of their castle may still be seen on the island of Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was never the picturesque castle of song and story, this home of the fighting Shaws, but an austere fortress, probably built in Roman times; and even to-day the crumbling walls which alone are left of it show traces of the relentless assaults upon them. Of these the last and the most successful were made in the seventeenth century by the Grants and Rob Roy; and it was into the hands of the Grants that the Shaw fortress finally fell, about 1700, after almost a hundred years of ceaseless warfare.