The Western women's reader

The Angle of Vision" / Lillian Schlissel and Catherine Lavender

1. Homesites

"The Ancient People," from The Song of the Lark / Willa Cather

"The Myths and Legends of My Grandmothers," from The Ways of My Grandmothers / Beverly Hungry Wolf

"Slim Man Canyon," "Prayer to the Pacific," and "Ts'its'tsi'nako, Thought-Woman" / Leslie Marmon Silko

"A Hopi Creation Story" from Pueblo Indian Religion / Elsie Clews Parsons

"Loneliness Without Despair" and "The Night It Rained," from We Fed Them Cactus / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca

"First Meeting of Piutes and Whites," from Life Among the Piutes / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

2. Landfall

from "Overland Diary, 1847" / Elizabeth Smith Dixon Geer

"Letter from Oregon Territory, 1850" / Abigail Malick

Gold Rush Women

Sweethearts of the Road

"A Handcart Pioneer", from Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860 / Mary Ann Hafen

"A Woman's Trip to the Klondike" / Emma L. Kelly

"Its Wavering Image," from Mrs. Spring Fragrance / Sui Sin Far and Edith Maude Eaton

3. Gift of Good Land

"The Land of Little Rain," "The Scavengers," and "The Basket Maker," from The Land of Little Rain / Mary Austin

"Impressions of an Indian Childhood" / Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)

"The Wild Land," from O Pioneers! / Willa Cather

from Letters of a Woman Homesteader / Elinore Pruitt Stewart

"Cooking in a Telegraph Camp," from Plain Anne Ellis / Anne Ellis

4. Hardscrabble

"The Early Years" from Daughter of Earth / Agnes Smedley

"A Father's Portrait," from Old Jules: Portrait of a Pioneer / Mari Sandoz

"Planting and Thinning," from Second Hoeing / Hope Williams Sykes

Poems from Dakota Bones / Linda Hasselstrom

5. Storytellers

"An Alaska Legend," from Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival / Velma Wallis

from Calamity Jane's Letters to her Daughter / Anonymous

"The Rapture of Hetty" and "Pretty Girls in the West" / Mary Hallock Foote

from Ramona / Helen Hunt Jackson

"Cogewea The Half-Blood," from Cogewea / Mourning Dove (Christal Quintasket)

"The Journey" from The Leaning Tower and Other Stories / Katherine Anne Porter

"Making Do" / Linda Hogan

6. First Person

"Troublesome Memories," from Earth Horizon: An Autobiography / Mary Austin

WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives

"Women," from Papago Woman / Ruth Underhill

"Seasons," from Winter in Taos / Mabel Dodge Luhan

"Oral Histories of Ranch Women" / Donna Gray

"The Double A Ranch," from Mother's Letters / Elizabeth Hampsten

"Writing My Grandmother's Life," from Riding the White Horse Home / Teresa Jordan

"My American Life," from The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston

7. Rewriting History

Indian Reform Letter / Helen Hunt Jackson

"Many Soldiers Falling in to Camp," from Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas / Mari Sandoz

"The Apaches Settle Down as Prisoners," from Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place / Angie Debo

"She Loves Sitting Bull," from Warrior for a Lost Nation: A Biography of Sitting Bull / Dorothy Johnson

"Sitting on Red Cloud's Grave," from Bead on an Ant Hill / Delphine Red Shirt

8. Walking the Line

"The Cripple Creek Strike," from The Autobiography of Mother Jones / Mary "Mother" Jones

"I Want You Women Up North To Know" and "The Strike" / Tillie Olsen

"Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983," from Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 / Barbara Kingsolver

Cannery Women's Songs from the UCAPAWA News

"The Head-Cutters" / Edith Summers Kelley

9. Talking Back

from "Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess, Sor Filotea de la Cruz" / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

"Shikata Ga Nai," from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

"Two Cut-Off Hands," from Lakota Woman / Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes

"The Clan of One-Breasted Women," from Refuge / Terry Tempest Williams

"Faith and Loving in Las Vegas," from Carnal Acts / Nancy Mairs

"An Autobiography," from Angela Davis: An Autobiography / Angela Davis

"Savages in the Mirror: Phantoms and Fantasies in America," from Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing, Loose Canons / Paula Gunn Allen

10. Looking Within Myself I Am Many Parts: Western Women's Writing Today

"Holy Water" from The White Album / Joan Didion

"The Solace of Open Spaces," from The Solace of Open Spaces / Gretel Ehrlich

"Clay People" / Roxanne Swentzell

"Borderlands," from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza / Gloria Anzaldua

"Salad La Raza," "Desmet, Idaho, March 1969," and "Custer Lives in Humbolt County" / Janet Campbell Hale

"Talking to the Dead," from Talking to the Dead / Sylvia Watanabe

"Impersonating the Lord" and "Lone Star Republic," from You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You / Molly Ivins

"How Not to Cross the Border," from A Long Way from St. Louie / Colleen McElroy

"Remember the Alamo," from Woman Hollering Creek / Sandra Cisneros

Biographical Information About Western Women Photographers in The Western Women's Reader.