Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West

by Marcia Meredith Hensley

Paperback, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

F595 .H467

Collection

Publication

High Plains Pr (2008), Paperback, 304 pages

Description

Instead of talking about women's rights, these frontier women grabbed the opportunity to become landowners by homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s. Here they tell their stories in their own words -- through letters and articles of the time -- of adventure, independence, foolhardiness, failure, success, and freedom. - Publisher.

Awards

WILLA Literary Award (Finalist — Scholarly Nonfiction — 2009)
Reading the West Book Award (Winner — Reference — 2009)

Language

Physical description

304 p.; 8.9 inches

ISBN

0931271908 / 9780931271908
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