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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Thomas H. Appleton Jr. Melissa A. Mceuen 1

Nonhelema Hokolesqua (1718-1786), Jemima Boone Callaway (1762-1829), and Matilda Lewis Threlkeld (1799-c. 1885): Searching for Kentucky's Female Frontier Craig Thompson Friend 8

Anne Pogue McGinty (c. 1735-1815) and Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006): The Power of Place across Four Centuries Catherine Fosl 33

Mary Jane Warfield Clay (1815-1900): Wifely Devotion, Divorce, and Rebirth in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky William Kuby 59

Emilie Todd Helm (1836-1930) and Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882): "We Weep Over Our Dead Together" Angela Esco Elder 81

Josie Underwood (1840-1923) and Frances Dallam Peter (1843-1864): Two Union Women in Civil War Kentucky Andrea S. Watkins 99

Laura Clay (1849-1941): States' Rights and Southern Suffrage Reform Mary Jane Smith 119

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948): Homegrown Heroine Any Ajabour 140

Katherine Pettit (1868-1936) and May Stone (1867-1946): The Cultural Politics of Mountain Reform Sarah case 168

Enid Yandell (1869-1934): Kentucky's Frontier Sculptor and "Bachelor Maid" Juilee Decker 196

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872-1920): A Sense of Mission Lindsey Apple 219

Linda Neville (1873-1961): "The Lady Who Helps Blind Children See" James Duane Bolin 251

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fouse (1875-1952): Challenging Stereotypes and Building Community Karen Cotton McDaniel 274

Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965): Kind Ambition and the Creation of the Frontier Nursing Service Melanie Beals Goan 294

Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908-1986): A Writer's Life Martha Billips 312

Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers (1923- ): Purpose in Politics Carolyn R. Dupont 337

Martha Layne Collins (1936- ): Textbooks, Toyota, and Tenacity John Paul Hill 356

Nancy Newsom Mahaffey (1955- ): Preserving Heritage Foods in the "Ham Heartland" Melissa A. Mceuen 379

Selected Bibliography 409

Contributors 413

Index 417