Montana women homesteaders
Subtitle: a field of one's own
By: edited by Sarah Carter.
Contributors: Carter, Sarah.
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Helena, Mont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781560375005; 9781560374497
Subjects: Women pioneers -- Montana -- History -- 19th century; Women pioneers -- Montana -- History -- 20th century; Women pioneers -- Montana -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana; Pioneers -- Montana -- Biography; Montana -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Montana -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A lone woman homesteader: Mattie T. Cramer; title: A shack near Big Sandy: Adelia Elizabeth Hawkins Sturm Glover; title: "In my own home at last": Metta M. Loomis; title: The Sumatra adventure: Grace Binks, Ina Dana, Margaret Majors; title: Lone tree, Montana: Nan ("Nannie") Pritchard Francis; title: Crossing the border for land: Laura Etta Smalley Bangs; title: Evelyn Cameron photographs of Janet ("Jennie") Williams and other Montana women homesteaders; title: A homestead near the Little Crooked: Mia ("May") Anderson Vontver; title: 2 Letters, 5 feet of snow: the Mildred Belle Hunt diary; title: Dead, plucky, or proved up: women homesteaders in the Montana Press; title: "A sure-enough pioneer": Ada Maud Melville Shaw; title: A homestead near Smokey Butte: Catherine Calk McCarty; title: Life in the Badlands: Pearl ("Sparks") Danniel.