The West as a woman writer's subject -- Texas and Oklahoma -- The Pacific Northwest -- Upper California and Nevada -- Utah -- Colorado -- The Great Plains -- The High Plains -- Southern California and Nevada -- The Southwest -- On the trail, on the road -- The authors.

Annie Heloise Abel (later Henderson) -- Emma H. Adams -- Ednah Robinson Aiken -- Bess Streeter Aldrich -- Emma S(arah) Allen -- Margaret V. Allen -- Ada Woodruff Anderson -- Mabel Washbourne Anderson -- Kate Adele Aplington -- Anna E. Arnold -- Gertrude Franklin Horne Atherton -- Mary Hunter Austin -- Mae Lacy Baggs -- Alice Ward Bailey -- Margaret Jewett Bailey -- Mary E. Bamford -- Helen Elliott Bandini -- Anna Maynard Barbour -- Nettie Garmer Barker -- Josephine Barnaby -- Amelia Barr -- Dolly Bryant Bates (Mrs. D. B.) -- Josephine White Bates -- Delilah L. Beasley -- Ellen McGowan Biddle -- Sarah Bixby-Smith -- Mary Elizabeth (McGrath) Blake -- Nellie Blessing-Eyster -- Geraldine Bonner -- Bertha Muzzie Bower (B. M. Bower and occasionally, later, B. M. Sinclair) -- Frances Anne Mullen Boyd -- Kate Boyles (later Bingham) -- Therese Broderick -- Elizabeth Brooks -- Clara Ellis Spalding Brown -- Jane W. Bruner -- Emma F(rances) Jay Bullene -- Marianna Burgess -- Katharine Newlin Burt -- S(ophia) Alice Callahan -- Sarah E. Carmichael -- Sarah Pratt Carr -- Frances C. (Grummond) Carrington -- Margaret I. Carrington -- Willa Cather -- Jane McManus Storms Cazneau -- Katherine Chandler -- Catharine Hopkins Chapman -- Mary Ellen Chase -- Lydia Maria Child -- Caroline N. Churchill -- Esther M. Clark (later Hill) -- Susie C(hampney) Clark -- Kate M. Cleary -- Mabel Goodwin Cleland -- Bertha Browning Barnes Cobb -- Alice Rollit Coe -- Septima Maria Levy Collis -- Miriam Davis Colt -- Sarah Comstock -- Mary Cone -- Belle W. Cooke -- Grace MacGowan Cooke -- Ina Coolbirth -- Mary Roberts Coolidge -- Amelia Sheffield Peckham Cordry -- Hannah Last Cornaby -- Isabel Crawford -- Augusta Joyce Crocheron -- (Mattie) Ruth Cross -- Sarah J. Cummins -- Maud Cuney-Hare -- Emma Ghent Curtis -- Natalie Curtis -- Elizabeth Bacon Custer -- Katie Litty Daffan -- Mary Stewart Daggett -- Caroline Healey Dall -- Esther Birdsall Darling -- Mary (Mollie) Evelyn Moore (M. E. M.) Davis -- Emma Frances Dawson -- Sara Dean -- Elizabeth Willis DeHuff -- Elizabeth Dejeans -- Emily Inez Denny -- Adina DeZavala -- Luella Dickenson -- Annie L. (La Porte) Diggs -- Winifred Hawkridge Dixon -- Ethel Dorrance -- Amanda Douglas -- Mary Osborn Douthit -- Clara Driscoll -- Constance Goddard Du Bois -- Abigail Scott Duniway -- Eva Emery Dye -- Ida Casey Dryer (Mrs. D. B.) -- Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) -- Rachel Caroline Eaton -- Rose L. Ellerbe -- Maud Howe Elliot -- Mary Katharine Jackson English -- Alma Estabrook -- Eliza Farnham -- Elizabeth Cornelia Woodcock (Mrs. B. G.) Ferris -- Mary C. Ferris -- Alice C. Fletcher -- Mary Hallock Foote -- Harrie Rebecca Piper Smith Forbes (Mrs. Armitage S. C.) -- Emma E. C. (Elizabeth Calderhead) Forter -- Caroline H. W. (Holcombe Wright) Foster -- Ruth May Fox -- Jessie Benton Fremont -- Jennie Anderson Froiseth -- Jennet Blakeslee Frost -- Anna Fuller -- Emeline L. Fuller -- Frances I. Sims Fulton -- Eleanor Gates -- Susa Young Gates -- Marianne Gauss -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Stella Gilman -- Effie Price Gladding -- Mary W(illis) Glascock -- S. Anna Gordon -- Effie Graham -- Margaret Collier Graham -- Blanche Chloe Grant -- Annie Maria Green -- Irene Welch Grissom -- Helen Elizabeth Haines -- Josie Briggs hall -- Sharlot Mabridge Hall -- Mina Dean Halsey -- Datherine B. Hamill -- Alice Harriman -- Mattie Austin Hatcher -- Mary Jane Hayden -- Grace Raymond Hebard -- Mary Sherwood Wightman Helm -- Alice Corbin Henderson -- Sarah Raymond Herndon -- Charlotte Bronte Herr -- Elizabeth Higgins -- Ella Higginson -- Alice Polk Hill -- Emma Shepard Hill -- Grace Livingston Hill (later, for a while, Lutz) -- Abbie B. (Rich) Hillerman -- Mary E. Hitchcock -- Frances Chamberlain Holley -- Mary Austin Holley -- Forrestine Cooper Hooker -- Lucile Hooper -- Alice Merrill Horne -- Eliza P. Houghton -- Mary W. Hudson -- Ann Eugenia Hughes -- Mary A. Vance Humphrey -- May Arkwright Hutton -- Sara White isaman -- Ellen E. Jack -- Helen Hunt

Jackson -- Mary E. Jackson -- Annie Fellows Johnston -- Katharine Berry Judson -- Phoebe Goodall Judson -- Elizabeth Wood Kane -- Fanny Kelly -- Florence Finch Kelly -- Hannah Tapfield King -- Adeline Knapp -- Frances Knapp -- Jessie Juliet Knox -- Lydia Spencer Lane -- Rose Wilder Lane -- Sarah L. Larimer -- A(gnes) C. Laut -- Caroline C. Leighton -- Miriam Follin Leslie -- Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott -- Caroline Lockhart -- Mae Van Norman Long -- Maria S. Lopez de Cummings -- Elizabeth Laughlin Lord -- Flora Haines Loughead -- Hattie Horner Louthan -- Margaret Lynn -- Alice MacGowan -- Pauline Bradford Mackie (later Hopkins) -- Mary MacLane -- Florence Lee Mallinson -- Caroline (Carrie) Louise Marshall -- Cora Marsland -- Grace Sartwell Mason -- Beatrice Larned Massey -- Amanda Chase Matthews -- Mary Katherine Maule -- Mary A. Maverick -- Celeste Ball May -- Florence Land May -- Kate McBeth -- Margaret Hill McCarter -- Virginia Donaghe McClurg -- Josephine Clifford McCrackin -- Frances McElrath -- Marie L. McLaughlin -- Grace E. Meredith -- Florence A. Merriam (later Bailey) -- Janie Chase Michaels -- Miriam Michelson -- Ella Sterling Cummins Michels -- Olive Thorne Miller -- Ruth Comfort Mitchell -- Anne Shannon Monroe -- Sallie B. Morgan -- Harriet C. Morse -- Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) -- Dell H. Munger -- Lois Lovina Abbott Murray -- Fannie E. Newberry -- Emma Mersereau Newton -- Kathleen Norris -- Grace May North -- Mary Myers North -- Aileen (O'Bryan) Nusbaum -- Mary Hamilton O'Connor -- Sarah Emilia Olden -- Cora Miranda Baggersly (Mrs. Fremont) Older -- Kate Alma Orgain -- Gwendolen Overton -- Narcissa Owen -- Bethenia Owens-Adair -- Cornelia (Mrs. Alonzo G.) Paddock -- Elizabeth M. Page -- Frances Parker -- Elsie Clews Parsons -- Elia Wilkinson Peattie -- Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker -- Edna Brush Perkins -- Eleanor Hodgman Porter -- Lavinia Honeyman Porter -- Rebecca N(ewman) Porter -- Emily Price Post -- Alice Day Pratt -- Melinda Rankin -- Emma J. Ray -- Evelyn Hunt Raymond -- Clarice E. Richards -- Louisa (Lula) Greene Richards -- Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Sara T. L. Robinson -- Frances M(arie) A(ntoinette) Roe -- Vingie E. (Eve) Roe -- Aurelia Spencer Rogers -- Alice Wellington Rollins -- Hannah Anderson Ropes -- Mary Jane Ross -- Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- Florence Kimball Russel -- Marah Ellis Ryan -- Kate Sanborn -- Helen Fitzgerald Sanders -- Mary P. Sawtelle -- Dorothy Scarborough -- Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore -- Mary Datrine (Mrs. William T.) Sedgwick -- Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson -- Katharine Sharp -- Luella Shaw -- Alice Jack (Dolan) Shipman (Mrs. O. L.) -- Constance Lindsay Skinner -- Alice Prescott Smith -- Launa M(aria) Smith -- Eliza Roxcy Snow -- E. D. E. N. (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte) Southworth -- Phebe Estelle Spalding -- Dorcas James Spencer -- Josephine Spencer -- Mallie Stafford -- Patience Stapleton -- Fanny (Mrs. T.B.) Stenhouse -- Ann Sophia Stephens -- Louise Gregg Stephens -- Matilda Coxe Stevenson -- Elinore Pruitt Stewart -- Mary E. Stickney -- Elinore Cowan Stone -- Yda Addis Storke -- Marietta Lois Bell Stow -- Carrie Adell Strahorn -- Lilyan Corbin Stratton -- Idah Meacham Strobridge -- May Kellogg Sullivan -- Martha Summerhayes -- A. Jennie (Bartlett) Switzer -- Louise E. Taber -- Annie D. Tallent -- Lucy Thompson -- Rose Hartwick Thorpe -- Zoe Stratton Tilghman -- Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley -- Juliet Wilbor Tompkins -- Margaret Turnbull -- Charlotte Marion White Vaile -- Mary T(urril) Van Denburgh -- Frances Fuller Victor -- Metta Victoria Fuller Victor -- Teresa Viele -- Madge Morris Wagner -- Frona Eunice Wait (later Colburn) -- C(atharine) V. Waite -- Susan E. Wallace -- Jeannette Walworth -- Eliza Spalding Warren -- Emmeline B. Wells -- May Wentworth (also Mary Wentworth Newman, Mary Richardson Dolliver) -- Leoti L. West -- Helen Cody Wetmore -- Lu Wheat -- Helen Mar (Kimball) Whitney -- Martha S. Whitten -- Leah D. Widtsoe -- Kate Douglas Wiggin -- Bernice Love Wiggins -- Emma Hart Willard -- Madeline Deaderick Willard -- Ellen Williams -- Mary H. Wills -- Honore Willsie (later Morrow) -- Augusta Evans Wilson -- Sarah Winnemucca (Hopkins) -- Alice S. Wolf -- Emma Wolf -- Ruth Kedzie Wood -- Abby Johnson Woodman -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey -- Pauline Wilson Worth -- Muriel H. Wright -- Ann Eliza Young -- Margaret G. Young -- Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)