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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation World Literature “witch” for the albinism thatA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of 2023An award winning historian shows how girls who found self understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous womens basketball