STAKING HER CLAIM WOMEN HOMESTEADING THE WEST
by Marcia Meredith Hensley
About 12 percent of all homesteaders were single women, settling the West on their own. Hensley uses letters, oral histories, and firsthand written accounts to allow these women to tell their own stories
WINNER: MPIBA Book Award 2010
304 pp, photos, index, bibliography, paperback $19.95
At bookstores or from the publisher, HIGH PLAINS PRESS,
PO Box 123, Glendo, WY 82213 Ph. 1-800-552-7619 www,highplainspress.com
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