Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Working on the Land -- History from the Inside-out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America -- Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study -- The Ideal Woman in the Antebellum South: Lady or Farmwife? -- The Role and Status of the Female Yeomanry in the Antebellum South: The Literary View -- “Not Gainfully Employed”: Women on the Iowa Frontier, 1833–1870 -- Images of the Frontierswoman: Iowa as a Case Study -- "You May Depend She Does Not Eat Much Idle Bread": Mid-Atlantic Farm Women and Their Historians -- Forgotten Persephones: Women Farmers on the Frontier -- Autonomy and Dependency in the Lives of Dakota Women: A Study in Historical Change -- Female Planters and Planters’ Wives in Civil War and Reconstruction: Alabama, 1850–1870 -- Black Women in American Agriculture -- Women Homesteaders on the Great Plains Frontier -- Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842–1867 -- “A Helpmate for Man Indeed” The Image of the Frontier Woman -- Women in the Agricultural Settlement of the Northern Plains -- Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision -- Single Women Homesteaders in Wyoming, 1880–1930 -- Rural Life among Nineteenth-Century Mormons: The Woman’s Experience -- Farm Women’s Roles in the Agricultural Development of South Dakota -- “How’re You Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?”: Rural Women and the Urban Model in Utah -- “I’ve Worked, I’m Not Afraid of Work”: Farm Women in New Mexico, 1920–1940 -- The Ideal Rural Southern Woman as Seen by Progressive Farmer in the 1930s -- Copyright Information -- Index