Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Editors' Introduction	3
1	Empowering "The Welder": A Historical Survey of Women of Color in the West	21
2	Native American Women: Changing Statuses, Changing Interpretations	42
3	Race, Gender, and Intercultural Relations: The Case of Interracial Marriage	69
4	"A Poor Widow Burdened with Children": Widows and Land in Colonial New Mexico	85
5	"This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex": Captivity and Identity in New Mexico, 1700-1846	97
6	When Strangers Met: Sex and Gender on Three Frontiers	122
7	The Women of Lincoln County, 1860-1900	147
8	"I See What I Have Done": The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'Klallam Woman	172
9	"Yo Sola Aprendi": Mexican Women's Personal Narratives from Nineteenth-Century California	188
10	Gender and the "Citizen Indian"	202
11	Resistance to Rescue: The Indians of Bahapki and Mrs. Annie E. K. Bidwell	230
12	Beyond the Stereotypes: Chinese Pioneer Women	258
13	"I Got a Girl Here, Would You Like to Meet Her?": Courtship, Ethnicity, and Community in Sweetwater County, 1900-1925	274
14	Euskaldun Andreak: Basque Women as Hard Workers, Hoteleras, and Matriarchs	298
15	"We Are Women Irish": Gender, Class, Religious, and Ethnic Identity in Anaconda, Montana	311
16	Drag's a Life: Women, Gender, and Cross-Dressing in the Nineteenth-Century West	334
17	Dead Ends of Gold Mines? Using Missionary Records in Mexican American Women's History	354
18	Lifting as We Climb: African American Women's Clubs of Denver, 1890-1925	372
19	"Save the Babies!": American Indian Women, Assimilation Policy, and Scientific Motherhood, 1912-1918	393
20	Introduction to Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America	410
21	Alice Dickerson Montemayor: Feminism and Mexican American Politics in the 1930s	435
22	Desperately Seeking "Deirdre": Gender Roles, Multicultural Relations, and Nisei Women Writers of the 1930s	461
23	Dolores Del Rio and Lupe Velez: Images on and off the Screen, 1925-1944	475
24	Tsugiki, A Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington State	493
25	"Not in Somebody's Kitchen": African American Women Workers in Richmond, California, and the Impact of World War II	517
26	Changing Woman Meets Madonna: Navajo Women's Networks and Sex-Gender Values in Transition	533
27	Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: "Mothers of East Los Angeles"	553
28	Southeast Asian Refugee Women, War, and Resettlement	569
29	"My Mother Was a Mover": African American Seminole Women in Brackettville, Texas, 1914-1964	585
	Selected Bibliographies	601
	General Bibliography	601
	African American Women	602
	Asian American Women	608
	Euro-American Ethnic Women	613
	Native American Women	616
	Latinas/Hispanas	621
	List of Contributors	631
	Index	637