Women and The American West
A Select Bibliography
His 498
Bibliographies and Guides
Arksey, Laura American diaries : an annotated bibliography of published American
diaries and journals Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, c1983-
v. 1. Diaries written from 1492 to 1844 -- v. 2. Diaries written from 1845 to
1980.
HAYDEN REFERENCE CT214 .A7x v.1
HAYDEN REFERENCE CT214 .A7x v.2
Armitage, Susan, et. al., ed., Women in the West : a guide to manuscript sources
New York : Garland Pub., 1991.
HAYDEN REFERENCE HQ1438.W45 W65x 1991
Cline, Cheryl, Women's diaries, journals, and letters : an annotated bibliography /
Cheryl Cline. New York : Garland Pub., 1989.
HAYDEN REFERENCE CT3230 .C55x
Etter, Patricia A. To California on the southern route, 1849 : a history and annotated
bibliography. Spokane, Wash. : Arthur H. Clark, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [43]-154) and index.
HAYDEN ARIZONA F786 .E88 1998
HAYDEN AZ HIST FOUND F786 .E88 1998
Goodfriend, Joyce D. The published diaries and letters of American women : an annotated
bibliography / Joyce D. Goodfriend. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1987.
HAYDEN REFERENCE CT 3260 .G66x 1987
Harrison, Cynthia Ellen. Women in American history : a bibliography
Santa Barbara, Calif. : American Bibliographical Center--Clio Press, c1979-
HAYDEN REFERENCE HQ1410 .H375x v.1
HAYDEN REFERENCE HQ1410 .H375x v.2
Hinding, Andrea, et.al., ed.
Women's history sources : a guide to archives and manuscript
collections in the United States New York : Bowker, 1979.
v. 1. Collections.--v. 2. Index.
HAYDEN REFERENCE HQ1410 .W64x v.1
HAYDEN REFERENCE HQ1410 .W64x v.2
King, Richard G. Women on the frontier Southwest (mostly) : a guide to bibliographies,
books with bibliographies, articles with bibliographies, and books and
articles of interest for the study of women on the Southwest frontier
Tucson, Ariz. : Southwest Institute for Research, 1991.
HAYDEN STACKS HQ1410 .K5x 1991
Schlissel, Lillian, Collected By. Women's diaries of the westward journey
New York : Schocken Books, c1992.
HAYDEN AZ HIST FOUND F593 .W65 1992
Online Indexes and Guides
America: History and Life (1954+) Indexes and Abstracts over 2,400 articles, bibliographic
citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the USA and Canada from
prehistoric to the present time.
ArchivesUSA (1950s+) Access to special collection details of more than 4,400 repositories
includes records with complete detailed indexes for approximately 100,000 individual
collections. Includes access through NUCMC and NIDS subject headings.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (1500+) Covers the history, life and culture of
native North Americans. Indexes works from the 16th century to the present, including
monographs, essays, journal articles, government documents, historical and ethnographic
books, and dissertations.
JSTOR Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History,
Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology.
PCI Full Text (1770-1995) PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents
of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to
1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
Selected Internet Sites
Yahoo/U.S. History/Women's History
Yahoo is my search engine of choice when I begin an Internet Search. Its History sections are excellent. Because of its subject and hierarchical structure, it is the closest to a Library of the Internet.
American Women's History
American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as
to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools
researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
WestWeb: Making It Their Own
This section of WestWeb provides information about Women in the West.
Under Texts you will find examples of primary texts, such as women's
diaries and literary works, or secondary texts, such as critical essays or
historical studies. Under Resources, you will find biographies of Western
women as well as other resources...
Women of the West: And Every Day Life Along the Trail
These pages will try to describe one such trail--the Overland Trail--how and why it began in 1862 under the direction of Ben Holladay, and how the wagon wheels and hoof beats were abruptly silenced in 1869 with the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad--closing an era that will be never forgotten. The somewhat romantic introduction to this site notwithstanding, there are excellent sections on " Women of the West" and "Diaries, Memoirs and Letters" among others.
If you have questions concerning these sources, please contact Edward Oetting at: edding@asu.edu
Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
Political Science/History Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
(480) 965 - 4579
edding@asu.edu
