Land in her own name
Subtitle: women as homesteaders in North Dakota
By: H. Elaine Lindgren.
Publisher: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Fargo, N.D
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Women pioneers -- North Dakota -- Biography.; Women pioneers -- North Dakota -- History.; North Dakota -- Biography.; North Dakota -- Social life and customs.
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 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. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) and index

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