02462oam 2200397z- 450 991015776100332120101017080856.01-56037-558-2(CKB)3710000001009886(VLeBooks)9781560375586(EXLCZ)99371000000100988620210505c2013uuuu -u- -engMontana Women HomesteadersFarcountry Incorporated1 online resource (1 p.)A lone woman homesteader: Mattie T. Cramer -- A shack near Big Sandy: Adelia Elizabeth Hawkins Sturm Glover -- "In my own home at last": Metta M. Loomis -- The Sumatra adventure: Grace Binks, Ina Dana, Margaret Majors -- Lone tree, Montana: Nan ("Nannie") Pritchard Francis -- Crossing the border for land: Laura Etta Smalley Bangs -- Evelyn Cameron photographs of Janet ("Jennie") Williams and other Montana women homesteaders -- A homestead near the Little Crooked: Mia ("May") Anderson Vontver -- 2 Letters, 5 feet of snow: the Mildred Belle Hunt diary -- Dead, plucky, or proved up: women homesteaders in the Montana Press -- "A sure-enough pioneer": Ada Maud Melville Shaw -- A homestead near Smokey Butte: Catherine Calk McCarty -- Life in the Badlands: Pearl ("Sparks") Danniel.In Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own, Sarah Carter introduces the voices and images of women who filed on 160- or 320-acre homestead plots in Montana. Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted, women varied in ages, educational levels, and ethnic backgrounds, but all "proved up" on their homesteads. In published accounts, scrapbooks, personal reminiscences, and photographs, the women recorded their remarkable journeys.Women pioneersMontanaHistory19th centuryWomen pioneersMontanaHistory20th centuryWomen pioneersMontanaBiographyFrontier and pioneer lifeMontanaPioneersMontanaBiographyMontanaSocial life and customs19th centuryMontanaSocial life and customs20th centuryWomen pioneersHistoryWomen pioneersHistoryWomen pioneersFrontier and pioneer lifePioneers978.6/03082Carter Sarah801164BOOK9910157761003321Montana women homesteaders2876042UNINA