Staking her claim
Subtitle: women homesteading the West
By: Marcia Meredith Hensley.
Publisher: High Plains Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Glendo, Wyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780931271892; 9780931271908
Subjects: Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Single women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Single women homesteaders: their place in history & literature; title: Getting acquainted: meet the single women homesteaders; title: Heroines of the popular press: homesteaders' stories, 1911-1928; title: Please answer soon: letters of single women homesteaders; title: Looking back: single women homesteaders' memoirs; title: Rediscovered: single women homesteaders in historical records