Introduction / Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz, Janice Monk -- Part I. Starting points -- Anglo women and domestic ideology in the American West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Robert L. Griswold -- Women dreaming : The religiopsychology of Indian-White marriage and the rise of Metis culture / Jacqueline Peterson -- Family on the Western frontier / Lillian Schlissel -- "And miles to go ...": Mexican women and work, 1930-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Part II. New directions -- Women's place : Continuity and change in response to Western landscapes / Vera Norwood -- The custom of the country : Cross-cultural marriage in the far Western fur trade / John Mack Faragher -- The legal rights of American Indian women / Genevieve Chato and Christian Conte -- Victoria's daughters : English-speaking women on nineteenth century frontiers / Sandra Myres -- Beyond John Wayne : Using historic sites to interpret women's history / Heather Huyck.