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- Title
LEARNING TO BE HOMESTEADERS.
- Authors
Smith, Joan
- Abstract
The article discusses women homesteaders in Oklahoma during the period of time from 1890-1907 and explores how these women obtained an informal education on pioneer life through the homesteading experience. It presents information related to women's roles in domestic life and their participation in frontier communities through an investigation of census reports, historical news clippings, and oral history transcripts and analyzes how the actual experiences of women in Oklahoma differed from those portrayed in historical accounts by historian Frederick Jackson Turner or stories about the frontierswoman Calamity Jane.
- Subjects
OKLAHOMA; WOMEN pioneers; FRONTIER &; pioneer life; NON-formal education of women; GENDER stereotypes; TURNER, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932; CALAMITY Jane, 1852-1903; OKLAHOMA state history; HISTORY
- Publication
American Educational History Journal, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 1/2, p169
- ISSN
1535-0584
- Publication type
Article