Introduction: Squaring the circle -- Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement -- The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home -- Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation -- The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki -- A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field -- Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival -- Postscript: The map and the territory
Catalog of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Autry Museum of Western Heritage.
Contents
Introduction : women envision the West, 1890-1945 / Virginia Scharff -- Searching for selfhood : women artists of Northern California / Susan Landauer -- "Islands on the land" : women traditionalists of Southern California / Patricia Trenton -- The adventuresome, the eccentrics, and the dreamers : women modernists of Southern California / Ilene Susan Fort -- Northwestern exposure / Vicki Halper -- No woman's land : Arizona adventurers / Sarah J. Moore -- Inner voices, outward forms : women painters in New Mexico / Sandra D'Emilio and Sharyn Udall -- Lone star spirits / Susan Landauer with Becky Duval Reese -- "I must paint" : women artists of the Rocky Mountain region / Erika Doss -- Cultivating the grasslands : women painters in the Great Plains / Joni L. Kinsey
Mining a mythic past : the history of Mary Ellen Pleasant / Lynn M. Hudson -- Rape narratives on the northern Paiute frontier : Sarah Winnemucca, sexual sovereignty, and economic autonomy, 1844-1891 / Rosemarie Stremlau -- Frances Fuller Victor's promotion of strong, independent womanhood : women and marriage reconstructed in "The new Penelope" / June Johnson Bube -- We had no assistance from anyone-- happier to do it alone : Montana, the missions, and Mother Amadeus / Anne M. Butler -- Finding Mary Fields : race and gender and the construction of memory / Dee Garceau-Hagen -- Reclaiming Polly Bemis : China's daughter, Idaho's legendary pioneer / Ruthanne Lum McCunn -- Unlikely champion : Emma Rose Sansaver, 1884-1925 / Linda Peavey and Ursula Smith -- The curative space of the American West in the life and letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart / Natalie Dykstra -- Elizabeth Layton DeMary and the Rupert Culture Club : new womanhood in a reclamation settlement community / Laura Woodworth-Ney