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Making on Their Own: Women in the West
"Under Texts you will find examples of primary texts, such as women's diaries and literary works, or secondary texts, such as critical essays or historical studies. Under Resources, you will find biographies of Western women as well as other resources, such as bibliographies and teaching and study materials. Under Links to Other Sites, you will find a collection of links to sites dealing with various issues in women's history, such as women's art and health. Finally, under Images, you will find both general collections which include some images of Western women's history and direct links to pictures available online."
By Catherine Lavender, Department of History, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York

Diaries, Letters & Journals
Letters of Julia Louisa Lovejoy - (dead link)

Catherine Sage - Across the Plains in 1844 - (dead link)

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Journals of Narcissa Whitman - (dead link)

Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman - (dead link)

Memoirs of the Gold Rush - (dead link)
Luzena Stanley Wilson

General Directories
Chicana Studies - CLNet
Sections include: Profiles ; Mujer-Listserv ; Chicana/Latina Web Sites ; Resources & Topics ; Announcements ; Organizations & Networks.
Maintained by Romelia Salinas

Cowgirls Home on the Web!

Gender in the West - (dead link)
A bibliography by Catherine J. Lavender, Department of History, City University of New York, The College of Staten Island

"Her Daily Concern:" Women's Health Issues in Early 19th-Century Indiana - (dead link)
By Timothy Crumrin

Living in Both Worlds: Inupiaq Women and Urban Life - (dead link)
"...adapted from a 'Commentary' article by Nancy Fogel-Chance in the journal Arctic, vol 47. no.4 (December 1994). A more detailed account of this research was published in Arctic Anthropology, vol. 30, No. 1, p p. 94-108, 1993."

The National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame

Women & the West
An annotated collection of Internet resources
By T.V. Reed

Women Artists of the American West: Past & Present
"An Internet Course and Interdisciplinary Resource featuring the vital contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American west."
"...features the vital contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American west. The site is designed as an interdisciplinary resource and a distance learning course ... The WAAW Internet archive currently contains 17 collections, arranged according to four themes: community, identity, spirituality and locality. Each collection is comprised of illustrated essays, most of which have been written specifically for WAAW by recognized art historians, curators and artists."

Women in Alaska's History - (dead link)
"We have tried to include a diverse group of women but there were many more who came to accept the challenge of Alaska. We have included information about the women, crafts, stories, and plenty of resources. We also have a search engine and time-line so you can search for a specific woman or time period in our history."

Women in the Gold Rush
Includes excerpts from diaries and letters
By JoAnn Levy

Women's Historical Manuscript Collection - (dead link)
"The guide contains collections from all four Western Historical Manuscript locations. Each branch of the Collection has many other materials among its holdings containing information about women and their status and roles throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
A guide to their print collections

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