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An absorbing, often deeply personal account...highly recommended --Midwest Book Review
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About the Author
Sarah Carter is a professor and H. M. Tory Chair at the University of Alberta s history and classics department and a member of the faculty of Native studies. A specialist in western Canadian history, she crossed the forty-ninth parallel to compare land policies in the western United States and western Canada. Her books include The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada, Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada, and Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West. The winner of the 2006 Joan Jensen Darlis Miller Prize for the best article published about women in the Trans-Mississippi West, Carter became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007.
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Product details
Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Farcountry Press; First edition (October 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560374497
ISBN-13: 978-1560374497
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
25 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#621,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Instead of diving right into the book review I'd like to first take the time to share a piece of a conversation that took place between me and my kiddos. I was reading aloud a book to my kiddos when the questions started coming in. I encourage questions because that's how we learn. Eventually we got onto the topic of the importance of reading. Hitler and the book burning was brought up. As well as the Roman Catholic Church and the Latin Bible. If history has taught us anything it's that an illiterate society is an easily controlled society. 1984 anyone? Before heading over here to write I watched a YouTube video where the person was talking about how they had too many books and needed to downsize. It left me dumbfounded. They barely had anything!!! Seriously! Downsize books?! Are you kidding me?! NEVER!!!! BOOKS ARE LIFE!!! LONG LIVE THE BOOKSHELF!!! Books are a gateway to another world! There you can be a princess in a castle fighting a dragon or being rescued from it, whatever your taste You can be little boy living in the jungle! You can learn things you wouldn't know otherwise such as ladybugs are really carnivores! Books are knowledge. Books are powerful. Well my rant is long enough and not any where near be completed so I'll just have to end it with BUY MORE BOOKS. BUY THEM ALL!!! Onto the review....Montana Women Homesteaders was a gift to me from my husband. He knows me so well! The book consists of letters from homesteading women in the early 1900s. Some of the women have a borderline feminist attitude but they are the exception not the rule. Most were just thrown a curve ball in life such as a husband's death. They had no choice but to make lemonade out of lemons. Life is not a walk in the park. There are bad times and good times, both of which these women were no strangers too. The women faced hard times such as drought, crop failure, delivering babies without proper knowledge, ill animals and sometimes the loss of the animals just to name a few. It's a firsthand account of survival and will power. Homesteading, especially back in the day, was not for the faint of the heart. If your crops failed you, you couldn't run to the store and buy back up produce. You most likely weren't even lucky enough to have a neighbor that had food to share. You had to survive on what you had. At times the women faced starvation. The women weren't always alone. Some had lady friends, children, brothers, mother's, etc join them on their stead but it was registered in their name and they were the sole care taker of the place. There was no pattern in ages. Some were young and some were old but they all shared one thing, the will to live. They survived. They shared their stories. They shared their pictures. They shared their documents. It's a humbling read of history. While it is history it is not your highschool dry textbook. Pick it up. You'll be amazed at the strength of the women and will be ever so grateful for what you have. Also you won't see these women running around burning bras or crying for safe spaces. These are the real powerful women. They didn't think low of men. Some actually rather that their man was still alive so he could handle the dirty work and stress of life on a homestead in Montana. They did amazing things despite hardships thrown at them. It's a great book. You won't regret reading it.
I just finished this book, and really loved it. The book devotes a chapter to each of a dozen or so women who filed claims on free land in Montana in the late 1800s to the 19-teens. They were required to live on the land and improve it (with crops, fencing and a house) for five years before getting the title to it. They were also required to be single, divorced, abandoned or otherwise heads of their households, as married women didn't qualify for land.The book contains quite a few pictures of these tough women and their homesteads, and diary entries and letters from several of them. I am amazed that anybody could "prove up" a claim in that terribly dry, isolated place. The hunger, heat, cold, wind, sand, lack of water, crop failure, loss of livestock, lack of feminine companionship, and lack of medical care caused so many homesteaders to give up, and yet these women stayed and flourished.If you enjoy books about the settling of the American West and the pioneer spirit, you will love this book!
The book: "Montana Women Homesteaders; A Field of One's Own" is a subject that needed to be explored. These women were resourceful, adventurous and brave. Especially eastern Montana has to be seen and experienced to begin to understand what these women faced. One of them, Catherine Calk McCarty, was well known to us. It was her sharing her stories (being caught in a blizzard and having to give the horses their 'head' that got them safe to shelter. Or, being followed to her homestead by a lone rider who stayed in her corral for most of the night.) that led to our encouragement for her to write her story.I recommend this book to those who wish to learn about the settling of the west and the courage required to be one of the settlers, especially the women who came.
This was an amazing book. I read parts of it over and over. I think about these women and their struggles. Who knew these homesteading women even existed? We think we struggle today until you read about the pioneer women who helped settle this country.
This book has some fascinating accounts of the hardships endured by early 20th century single women homesteaders. Some of the writing is rather dry; others are very well written. Overall an interesting topic which I knew nothing about.
Very good book. I will be reading it again - interesting stories of how life was for these homesteading women.
A story of less than 20 of the female pioneer homesteaders in Montana. All but one of the homesteads were east of the Continential Divide and north of the Yellowstone River. This part of Montana is truly the "big sky" country, with continual winds of 10 to 40 mph, summer temperatures above 100 and winter temperatures at 40 or 50 below. Life was difficult in a one-room "prove-up" shack, with only coal for heat, water which had to be "hauled" or hand pumped from a well and an "outdoor privie" odorous in summer and skin-peeling cold in the winter. One of the women homesteaders lived Turner, the town where I spend the first year of my life.
Ok read, kind of boring...
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