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EXCITING NEWS!

COLORADO WOMEN HOMESTEADERS

Colorado Women Homesteaders, published by Farcountry Press of Helena, Montana, will be hitting the bookstores this summer. You may now pre-order the book. https://www.farcountrypress.com/Books/C/Colorado-Women-Homesteaders

EARLY REVIEW

"I confess I feared the stories of female sodbusters would be dull as dirt. But Gail Beaton's Colorado Women Homesteaders upended everything I thought I knew about this heretofore unexplored subset of our state's women's history. Beaton stacks the personal tales of homesteading women like cabin logs on an impressive foundation of facts and figures. She delves deep into historical records, but also into female homesteaders' diaries and letters to reveal their varied circumstances, motivation, challenges and dreams." 

Debra Faulkner, Brown Palace Historian and Author

               THE STORY

 

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more than 107,000 homesteaders proved up their claims in Colorado, raising crops and livestock on more than 22 million acres - one third of the state's land area. Nearly 13,000 of these pioneers were women filing claims in their own names. With grit and resilience, they faced the same challenges as their male counterparts, plus a social, economic, and legal landscape tilted against them. Some met calamities, yet many thrived.

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