Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940
- ISBN-10
- 0826331114
- ISBN-13
- 9780826331113
- Category
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- UNM Press
- Author
- Glenda Riley
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