Bibliographies

Rural Women Writers

Anzaldua, Gloria. 1987. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Austin, Mary.  1906. The Flock
___. 1917. The Ford (novel forthcoming reprint)
___. 1909. Lost Borders
Back, Mary.  1985. Seven Half-Miles from Home
Bird, Gloria.  Full Moon on the Reservation
Blew, Mary Clearman. 1991.  All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a  Montana Family (memoir)
___. 1994.  Balsamroot: A Memoir
___.  1990.  Runaway: A Collection of Stories
Blunt, Judy. (Forthcoming?)
Bly, Carol. Letters from the Country
Buutala, Sharon. The Perfection of the Morning
Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola.  We Fed Them Cactus
Cannon, Hal, ed.  1990. New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering (poetry)
Cather, Willla. 1913.  O'Pioneers
Chute, Carolyn. The Beans of Egypt Maine
Curry, Peggy Simpson. 1950s(?). So Far From Spring (novel)
___. 1955. Red Wind of Wyoming (poetry)
Ehrlich, Gretel. 1985. The Solace of Open Spaces (nonfiction)
Erdrich, Louise. ____ The Beet Queen
Fairbanks, Carol. Prairie Women: Images in Canadian and American Fiction
(lit study)
___. 1983.  Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier: A Sourcebook for Canada and the U.S.
Fink, Deborah.  Open Country:   Rural Women, Tradition and Change (soc.)
Gloss, Molly.  1989. The Jump-Off Creek (novel)
Greenwood, Kathy. 1990.  Heart Diamond (memoir)
Hanley, Wava G. And Jane B. Knowles. Women and Farming: Changing Roles,
Changing  Structures (soc.)
Hasselstrom, Linda. 1987. Going Over East: Reflections of a Woman Rancher
(nonfiction)
___. 1991. Land Circle: Writings Collected from the Land (essay)
___. 1990. Caught by One Wing (poetry)
Houston, Pam.  1992. Cowboys are My Weakness (short stories)
Hudson, Lois Phillips. Reapers of the Dust (novel)
___. The Bones of Plenty (novel)
Hurston, Zora Neale.  1937. Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel)
Jeffers, Jo.  1993. Ranch Wife
Jordan, Teresa. 1994.  Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album (memoir)
___.  1994. Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women (photography and poetry)
___. The Cowgirls (photography and sketches)
Juster, Norton. So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America, 1865-1895 (soc.)
Kohl, Edith Eudora. Land of the Burnt Thigh (1st person)
Kolodny, Annette. The Land Before Her: Fantasy & Experience of the American Frontiers 1630- 1860 (lit crit.)
Magoffin, Susan.  Old Spain in Our Southwest
Maret, Elizabeth. 1996, Women of the Range: Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry
Matthews, Sally Reynolds. 1900?. Interwoven
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum.  Thousand Pieces of Gold
Niedecker, Lorine. From This Condensery, The Granite Pail, Blue Chicory (poetry)
Norris, Kathleen. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Norwood, Vera and Janice Monk. 1987. The Desert is No Lady (art, photo, and lit crit)
Otero Warren, Nina.  Old Spain in our Southwest
Portillo-Trambley, Estella.  (?) Rain of Scorpions (novel?)
___. The Day of the Swallows (drama)
Riley, Glenda. Frontierswomen: The Iowa Experience (soc.)
Rosenfeld, Rachel. Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the U.S. (Soc.)
Sachs, Carolyn. The Invisible Farmers: Women in Agricultural Production (soc.)
Scarborough, Dorothy.  1926. The Wind (novel)
Silko, Leslie Marmon.  1977. Ceremony (novel)
___. 1981. Storyteller (stories, photos, poetry)
___. 1993. Sacred Water (text/photo story)
Smiley, Jane.  A Thousand Acres
Solnit, Rebecca. 1995. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American  West (nonfiction)
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt.  1914.  Letters of a Woman Homesteader (letters)
Tompkins, Jane.  West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns (film crit)
Turner, Elsa McFarland. ____. Berta Hart Nance: A Brand of Innocence
Van Cleve, Barbara. Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women (photos and nonfiction)
Walker, Mildred. 1943. Winter Wheat (novel)
Walsh, Marnie (?). 1970. Taste of the Knife (novel?)
Woodward, Mary Dodge. The Checkerd Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary (1st person)
Yamauchi, Wakako. 1994.  Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and
Memoir
________ _____This I can Leave You
________ _____ We Didn't Have Much but We Sure Had Plenty

Another dimension could be rural women as represented by male authors:

Baker, Richard.  Los Dops Mundos: Rural Mexican Americans, Another America 1996
Berry, Wendell. numerous
Easton, Robert O. 1993. The Happy Man: A Novel of California Ranch Life
(novel)
Garland, Hamlin.  Main-Traveled Roads
Hildebrand, John.  1995.  Mapping the Farm (novel)
Hyde, Dayton. 1971. Wilderness Ranch (nonfiction)
Kittredge, William
McCarthy, Cormac
Rawlins, C. L.
Rhodes, Eugene Manlove. 1914. Bransford in Arcadia (novel)
Ulph, Owen. 1984. The Leather Throne (novel)
Stegner, Wallace. (especially the letter to his mother in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs 1992)

Anthologies:
Circle of Women: An Anthology of Western Women Writers
From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest 1988
Late Harvest
Leaning into the Wind: Somen Write from the Heart of the West (forthcoming)
Life in the Saddle: Writings & Photographs 1996
Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writing from the American West 1995
The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West 1995
Unbridled Spirits: Short Fiction about Women in the Old West 1993
Westward the Women: An Anthology of Western Stories by Women 1984
Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Recent Western Writing 1984
Writing the Southwest 1996

A-V Materials:
Cowboy Poetry video clips from Elko, Nevada
The Milagro Beanfield Wars (rural Hispanic women involved in environmental issues)
Another Africa: People and Wilderness in Conflict
Fence at Red Rim
O'Pioneers
Heartland (directed by Annick Smith based on Letters of a Woman Homesteader)
The Ballad of Little Jo
The Piano
The Mission
The Tale of Ruby Rose
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Running on the Edge of the Rainbow (w/Silko)
comparison clips from numerous western films
international films from Women Make Movies, Inc. 462 Broadway, Suite 500
D, New York, NY   10013, tel: 212-295-0606, distdept@wmm.com