Rural American Women's History (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 282,002 ratings
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories (Sarah Agnes Prine, #1)
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories (Sarah Agnes Prine, #1) 4.36 avg rating — 80,374 ratings
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Mrs. Mike (Mrs. Mike, #1)
Mrs. Mike (Mrs. Mike, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 20,298 ratings
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Christy
Christy 4.25 avg rating — 56,479 ratings
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My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,878 ratings
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Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3) 4.21 avg rating — 299,239 ratings
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Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness 4.33 avg rating — 10,194 ratings
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,811 ratings
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Half Broke Horses
Half Broke Horses 4.09 avg rating — 171,109 ratings
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A Lantern in Her Hand
A Lantern in Her Hand 4.19 avg rating — 7,000 ratings
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Letters of a Woman Homesteader 3.93 avg rating — 8,576 ratings
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 3.97 avg rating — 3,662 ratings
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey 4.02 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)
Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) 4.20 avg rating — 92,494 ratings
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On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4) 4.22 avg rating — 105,786 ratings
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Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies
Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies 4.06 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 1,080,073 ratings
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The Diary of Mattie Spenser
The Diary of Mattie Spenser 4.03 avg rating — 11,942 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,794 ratings
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend 4.04 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West 4.12 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
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Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford 4.01 avg rating — 4,864 ratings
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The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
by: Dee Brown
3.78 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Light Changes Everything
Light Changes Everything 4.12 avg rating — 3,720 ratings
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The Reeve's Tale (Sister Frevisse #9)
The Reeve's Tale (Sister Frevisse #9) 4.10 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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No Life for a Lady
No Life for a Lady 4.05 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier 4.03 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder 4.12 avg rating — 923 ratings
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A Bride Goes West
A Bride Goes West 4.01 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition
Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition 3.77 avg rating — 102 ratings
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O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! 3.90 avg rating — 57,283 ratings
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Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/Yukon Gold Rush
Good Time Girls: Of the Alaska/Yukon Gold Rush 3.70 avg rating — 550 ratings
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The Collected Works of Willa Cather (Unexpurgated Edition)
The Collected Works of Willa Cather (Unexpurgated Edition) 4.42 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940
Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940
by: Mary Neth
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home
A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home 4.26 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Tudor Housewife
The Tudor Housewife 3.75 avg rating — 246 ratings
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The Outsider
The Outsider 3.97 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
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Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925
Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)
Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 19,341 ratings
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The Last Runaway
The Last Runaway 3.85 avg rating — 38,633 ratings
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Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work
Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work 3.92 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1-2)
Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall (Gad's Hall, #1-2) 4.29 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Four Winds
The Four Winds 4.30 avg rating — 900,797 ratings
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The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #3)
The Lonely Furrow (Suffolk, #3) 4.22 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Letters from Wupatki
Letters from Wupatki really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Song of Years
Song of Years 4.33 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (Ripley P. Bullen Series)
Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (Ripley P. Bullen Series) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Indigo Girl
The Indigo Girl 4.21 avg rating — 48,847 ratings
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Free Land
Free Land 3.79 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman 3.50 avg rating — 6,184 ratings
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I Married a Soldier
I Married a Soldier 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival 3.69 avg rating — 250 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers 3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Oatman Girls: The Capture & Captivity of Two Young American Women in the 1850s by the Apache Indians
The Oatman Girls: The Capture & Captivity of Two Young American Women in the 1850s by the Apache Indians 3.36 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout: Women Soldiers and Patriots on the Western Frontier
Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout: Women Soldiers and Patriots on the Western Frontier 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines 4.16 avg rating — 4,839 ratings
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Afternoon of an Autocrat
Afternoon of an Autocrat 4.08 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Maude Reed Tale
The Maude Reed Tale 4.14 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Pargeters
Pargeters 4.02 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women 3.79 avg rating — 144 ratings
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My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1)
My Friend Flicka (Flicka, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 29,176 ratings
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island 4.36 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Hillbilly Women
Hillbilly Women 4.09 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice 4.34 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Kansas Women (More than Petticoats Series)
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Kansas Women (More than Petticoats Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Splendid Piece of Work
A Splendid Piece of Work it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Portland: A Food Biography
Portland: A Food Biography 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Give Us This Valley
Give Us This Valley
by: Tom Ham
4.62 avg rating — 37 ratings
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 3.99 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope
Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope 3.94 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
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Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
Gold Digger, The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor 4.14 avg rating — 826 ratings
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The Gates of Eden
The Gates of Eden 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West
Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Breakfast: A History
Breakfast: A History 3.60 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Trail of Thread: A Woman's Westward Journey (Trail of Thread #1)
Trail of Thread: A Woman's Westward Journey (Trail of Thread #1) 4.03 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Libby: The Sketches, Letters & Journal of Libby Beeman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands 1879-1880 as Presented by Her Daughter Betty John
Libby: The Sketches, Letters & Journal of Libby Beeman, Recorded in the Pribilof Islands 1879-1880 as Presented by Her Daughter Betty John 4.14 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Our Village
Our Village 3.67 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Jump-Off Creek
Jump-Off Creek 3.90 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching 4.34 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Between Memory and Reality: Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870–1970
Between Memory and Reality: Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870–1970 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 53,415 ratings
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Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963
Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Waiting for Summer's Return (Heart of the Prairie #1)
Waiting for Summer's Return (Heart of the Prairie #1) 4.11 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree 3.96 avg rating — 4,369 ratings
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High Country Women: Pioneers of Yosemite National Park
High Country Women: Pioneers of Yosemite National Park 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Story Girl (The Story Girl, #1)
The Story Girl (The Story Girl, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 12,248 ratings
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Ambush of Young Days
Ambush of Young Days really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
90.
The Living
The Living 3.85 avg rating — 3,259 ratings
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Putting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York
Putting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army
Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army 4.35 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York
Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America 3.99 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Saudade
Saudade 3.99 avg rating — 69 ratings
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American Indian Women
American Indian Women 4.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Jassy
Jassy 4.01 avg rating — 354 ratings
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On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet
On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet 4.02 avg rating — 384 ratings
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A Wayside Tavern
A Wayside Tavern 4.23 avg rating — 364 ratings
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