Table of Contents:
  • 1. A tradition of pioneers
  • 2. Private enterprise : the emigrant autobiographies of Kitturah Belknap and Susanna Moodie
  • 3. Recipes for success : Catharine Parr Traill's Empire of woman
  • 4. Domesticity and dirt : Eliza Farnham's Life in prairie land and Christiana Tillson's Reminiscences of early life in Illinois
  • 5. "A space in which to be imaginative" : Caroline Kirkland's A new home, who'll follow
  • 6. Plotting the golden West : autobiographies of the mining West
  • 7. "To recover those once lost and now forgotten" : Anne Langton's journal and memoir
  • Conclusion : writing the pioneer woman.