Title: Staking her claim : women homesteading the West /
Authors: Hensley, Marcia Meredith, 1942-
Publisher: High Plains Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Women pioneers West (U.S.) Biography; Single women West (U.S.) Biography.; Women West (U.S.) Social life and customs; Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.); West (U.S.) Social life and customs; West (U.S.) History
Abstract: Instead of talking about women's rights, these frontier women grabbed the opportunity to become landowners by homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s. Here they tell their stories in their own words -- through letters and articles of the time -- of adventure, independence, foolhardiness, failure, success, and freedom. - Publisher.
Contents: Single women homesteaders: their place in history & literature -- Getting acquainted: meet the single women homesteaders -- Heroines of the popular press: homesteaders' stories, 1911-1928 -- Please answer soon: letters of single women homesteaders -- Looking back: single women homesteaders' memoirs -- Rediscovered: single women homesteaders in historical records.