Dee Garceau-Hagen

Sweetwater County, which lies in southwestern Wyoming, has stood as a significant symbolic geography for the "new Western Women's" history. As the country in which Elinore Pruitt Stewart said she proved up her homestead in 1913, it is a fitting locale for the study of western gender relations. "The Important things of life" examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth century and early twenty centuries. The discovery...