Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own

Sarah Carter is a professor and H. M. Tory Chair at the University of Alberta's history and classics department and a member of the faculty of Native studies. A specialist in western Canadian history, she crossed the forty-ninth parallel to compare land policies in the western United States and western Canada. Her books include the importance of being monogamous: marriage and nation building in western canada, aboriginal people and colonizers of western canada, and capturing women: the manipulation of cultural imagery in canada's prairie west. The winner of the 2006 Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize for the best article published about women in the Trans-Mississippi West, Carter became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007.