The civilizers / June O. Underwood -- Marie Louise Ritter / Darlene Ritter -- A study of feminism as a motif in "A Journey to Pike's Peak and New Mexico" / by Julia Archibald Holmes, Margaret Solomon -- Reluctant pioneers / Susan H. Armitage -- Women in western American fiction / Barbara Howard Meldrum -- Sacajawea of myth and history / David Remley -- Miscegenation in popular western history and fiction / Caren J. Deming -- The emergence of Helen Chalmers / Frances M. Malpezzi--The western roots of feminism in Agne[s] Smedley's Daughter of earth / Kathleen L. Nichols -- Pioneer women in the works to two Montana authors : interviews with Dorothy M. Johnson and A.B. Guthrie, Jr. / Sue Mathews -- Hamlin Garland's feminism / Frances W. Kaye -- The Virginian and Antonia Shimerda / John J. Murphy -- Beret as the Norse mythological goddess Freya/Gerthr / Catherine D. Farmer -- Marian Forrester and Moll Flanders / Patricia Lee Yongue -- Wright Morris, women, and American culture / Joseph J Wydeven -- The young girl in the West / Mary Ellen Williams Walsh -- Toward a new paradigm / Barbara Rippey -- Where the West begins : Constance Rourke's images of her own frontierland / Samuel I. Bellman -- Pioneering the imagination : Eudora Welty's The robber bridegroom / Melody Braulich -- The moral in Austin's The land of little rain / James C. Work -- A laddered. rain- bearing rug / Elaine Jahner

1. American literature -- History and criticism
2. Women in literature
3. Women authors
4. American
5. West (U.S.) -- In literature