Farm Life Ranch Life Women Pioneers Display

During Spring Break, our auxiliary display has a Farm Life | Ranch Life | Women Pioneers display. The display complete with books, eBooks, and images of farm life, ranch life, or women pioneers. March is traditionally women's history month and this display gives a nod to that tradition. Most people associate "pioneers" with a male viewpoint (explorers, outlaws, gold miners). Highlighting the women—the homesteaders, the ranchers, and the healers—adds to that narrative.

The books are a blend of fiction and nonfiction works. Of course one of America's best agrarian novel writers, Willa Cather, books are displayed including My Antonia and O, Pioneers. Diary books of plains women, and women living the ranch life, and young adult fiction about custom harvesting life, and so much more are on display. 

 

Small pictures of farm life surround the book display on the edges. They depict custom wheat harvesting, feeding livestock with bales of hay, cows in the grass, a cotton harvest, and more.

Which pioneer skill would you most want to have? (herbal medicine, navigation, blacksmithing, roping, herding, raising livestock, gardening, planting trees, raising crops, etc)