Land in her own name
Subtitle: women as homesteaders in North Dakota
By: H. Elaine Lindgren ; foreword by Elizabeth Jameson.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Women pioneers -- North Dakota -- History.; Women pioneers -- North Dakota -- Biography.; North Dakota -- Social life and customs.; North Dakota -- Biography.
Description: Land is often known by the names of past owners. "Emma's Land," "Gina's quarter," and "the Ingeborg Land" are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Land in Her Own Name records these homesteaders' experiences as revealed in interviews with surviving homesteaders and their families and friends, land records, letters, and diaries.

These women's fascinating accounts tell of locating a claim, erecting a shelter, and living on the prairie. Their ethnic backgrounds include Yankee, Scandinavian, German, and German-Russian, as well as African-American, Jewish, and Lebanese. Some were barely twenty-one, while others had reached their sixties. A few lived on their land for life and "never borrowed a cent against it"; others sold or rented the land to start a small business or to provide money for education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) index.
Originally published: Fargo : North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, c1991.