Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own

Historian Sarah Carter presents the life of women homesteaders who filed claims in Montana as single, widowed, divorced or deserted women.  All the women proved up on their homesteads.  This book includes various published accounts as well as scrapbooks, photographs and personal reminiscences of these women on the frontier in Montana.

Winner of the 2010 Silver Medal at the WILLA Literary Awards.