Homesteading women

Homesteading Later in Life

At sixty years old, I live alone in a circle of trees in the middle of twelve wild and wooly…

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Home Alone: Women on the Great Plains

“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed…

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Willa Cather: My Ántonia and the Settlement of the Great Plains

"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I…

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Homesteading with Dogs: Get By with a Little Help from Your Friends

If I had to give ato our Akbash/Great Pyrenees dogs or put them in one category, well, I…

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Living to Tell the Homesteading Tale

Life is full of surprises, and few people would have known that better than the Americans who participated in the…

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A Woman in No Man’s Land: Caroline Henderson, Homesteader

No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate…

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Drop Out and Stay Out! Leaving Corporate America for Good

It was 10:30 A.M.  I was getting the reports ready for the upcoming management team meeting, running through the last…

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Matilda Jackson: Making a Home on the Last Frontier

Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover Koontz Jackson, first aspirations of pioneering could easily…

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Inside a Sharecropper’s Garden: Growing Food in the Inner-city

Birgitt Evans has been gardening since she was a child.  Now a resident of Alameda—an eleven square mile island in…

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Helen Nearing, Twentieth Century Pioneer

March is Women’s History Month, and it seemed fitting to me that a homesteading woman should be celebrated. The woman…

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Bamewawagezhikaquay: The most famous person you never heard of.

I'd like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the pleasant-looking young woman in the portrait above Jane…

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Signpost to Simplicity: Wanda Urbanska Points the Way

If you have a television, you’ve probably seen the PBS series, Simple Living, or at least heard of it.  If…

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