Women Homesteaders on the Great Plains Frontier

On the agricultural frontier of a century ago, it was often stated that life was great for the men and horses, but hard on the women and cattle. Life was hard on some women. In one early account, I Went to Kansas, Marian Colt Davis describes her family's western migration, in which in rapid succession she lost her husband and child to epidemic. Devastated, remorseful, and exhausted, she hastily retreated to her point of origin, and there her memoirs end

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  Anne M Butler, William Deverell•Western Historical Quarterly•2006

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• A Feminine Atlas? Sacagewea, the Suffragettes and the Commemorative Landscape in the American West, 1904-1910

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• Racial, ethnic and gender inequities in farmland ownership and farming in the U.S

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• Landscapes of women and men

  Open Access•Jeanne Kay•Journal of Historical Geography•1991

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• American Borderlands

  Elizabeth Jameson•Canadian Review of American Studies•2022

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• Winning the Vote in the West

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• Women, Marital Status, and Work Opportunities in 1880 Colorado

  Open Access•Elizabeth Herr•The Journal of Economic History•1995

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• Our Landed Heritage. The Public Domain. 1776-1936

  Granville D Davis, Roy Marvin Robbins•The Arkansas Historical Quarterly•1943

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• A Frontier Lady

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• Letters of a Woman Homesteader

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• Agricultural Productivity Change in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

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• The Great Plains in Transition

  Open Access•Leslie Hewes, Carl Frederick Kraenzel•Geographical Review•1956

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• A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore

  Open Access•Edward T Herbert, Edward Herbert et al.•Western Folklore•1968

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• Tales of the Frontier

  Howard William Troyer, Howard Troyer et al.•Western Folklore•1966

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• The Conquest of Arid America

  Theodore Saloutos, William E Smythe•Technology and Culture•1971

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• Dolls, Vassals, and Drudges - Pioneer Women in the West

  T A Larson•Western Historical Quarterly•1972

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• Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies

  Richard S Tallman, Roger Welsch•Journal of American Folklore•1973

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