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• Against odds : a personal narrative of life in Horse Heaven (Concordia Publishing House, 1917), by K. Elizabeth Sihler and Concordia Publishing House (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The girl on the farm (Dept. of Church and Labor, Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1910), by Warren H. Wilson and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Dept. of Church and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women's rural organizations and their activities (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1918), by Anne Marie Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organization manual for county home demonstration councils (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1935., 1935), by Maggie W. Barry, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• An organization manual for county home demonstration councils (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1936., 1936), by Maggie W. Barry, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• County home demonstration council manual (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1945., 1945), by Helen H. Swift, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• An organization manual for county home demonstration councils (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1940., 1940), by Maggie W. Barry, Helen H. Swift, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• An organization manual for county home demonstration councils (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1941., 1941), by Maggie W. Barry, Helen H. Swift, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• County home demonstration council manual (College Station, Texas : Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A. & M. College System, 1949., 1949), by Helen H. Swift, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System. Agricultural Extension Service, and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• County home demonstration council manual (College Station, Texas : Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A. & M. College System, 1951., 1951), by Helen H. Swift, United States Department of Agriculture, and Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System. Agricultural Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• County home demonstration council manual (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1948., 1948), by Helen H. Swift, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• County home demonstration council manual (College Station, Texas : Texas Agricultural Extension Service, [1956], 1956), by Bonnie Cox, United States Department of Agriculture, and Texas Agricultural Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• County home demonstration council manual (College Station, Texas : Texas Agricultural Extension Service [1961], 1961), by Bonnie Cox, United States Department of Agriculture, and Texas Agricultural Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• County home demonstration council manual (College Station, Texas : Texas Agricultural Extension Service [1962], 1962), by Bonnie Cox, United States Department of Agriculture, and Texas Agricultural Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Appalachia rural women and the economics of hunger : hearing before the Domestic Task Force of the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, October 22, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger. Domestic Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)

• Appalachia : rural women and the economics of hunger : hearing before the Domestic Task Force of the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, October 22, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger. Domestic Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America (open access edition; Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), ed. by María Luz Cruz-Torres and Pamela D. McElwee (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Patrons of Women: Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011), by Esther Hertzog (JSTOR ebook)

• Status of Thai women in two rural areas : survey report (Agency for International Development?, 1977), by Nanatanee Jayasut and United States. Agency for International Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• A strategy paper for integrating LDC rural women into their national economies (Dept. of State, Agency for International Development, 1974), by Roberta K. Van Haeften and Douglas D. Caton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Assessing the impact of development projects on women (Office of Women in Development and Office of Evaluation, Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1980), by Ruth Dixon-Mueller, United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Evaluation, and United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Women in Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting By: Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994), by Christina E. Gringeri (JSTOR ebook)

• The rural homemaker in southern Rhode Island as a paid worker (Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island State College, 1936), by Margaret Whittemore and Blanche M. Kuschke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Employment programs for rural women. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1985), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Successful practices in the employment of nonfarm women on farms in the northeastern states, 1943 (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944), by Frances Wadsworth Valentine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Successful practices in the employment of nonfarm women on farms in the northestern states, 1943 (U.S. G.P.O., 1944), by Frances Wadsworth Valentine and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Illinois women : access to health care services (Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2001), by LaVonne Straub, Paul E. McNamara, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Illinois. Governor's Rural Affairs Council, and Illinois. Office of Lieutenant Governor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Weeds, by Edith Summers Kelley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America (open access edition; Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), ed. by María Luz Cruz-Torres and Pamela D. McElwee (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Rural Illinois women : access to health care services (Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2001), by LaVonne Straub, Paul E. McNamara, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Illinois. Governor's Rural Affairs Council, and Illinois. Office of Lieutenant Governor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Illinois women : access to health care services (Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2001), by LaVonne Straub, Paul E. McNamara, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Illinois. Governor's Rural Affairs Council, and Illinois. Office of Lieutenant Governor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women Who Stay Behind: Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico (originally published 2015; open access edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019), by Ruth Trinidad Galván (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Women Who Stay Behind: Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2015), by Ruth Trinidad Galván (JSTOR ebook)

• Rural women and the works progress program : a partial analysis of levels of living (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1937), by E. L. Morgan, Douglas Ensminger, and Melvin White Sneed (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wage premiums for on-the-job computer use : a metro and nonmetro analysis (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Food and Rural Economics Division, 2002), by Lorin D. Kusmin and United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Food and Rural Economics Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Impact of federal estate tax policies on rural women hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, Washington, D.C., February 4, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of federal estate tax policies on rural women : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, Washington, D.C., February 4, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female heads of rural relief and non-relief households, October 1933 (Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Division of Research, Statistics and Finance, Research Section, 1935), by Allen David Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Women farmers in America (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1982), by Judith Z. Kalbacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Changing roles and current outreach techniques (Social Sciences Institute, 1998), by Social Sciences Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• How Two Girls Tried Farming (published under "Dorothea Alice Shepherd" pseudonym; Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1879), by Ella Farman Pratt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Far from the madding crowd (Harper, 1918), by Thomas Hardy and W. T. Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in the fruit-growing and canning industries in the State of Washington; a study of hours, wages and conditions. (G.P.O., 1926), by United States Women's Bureau, Caroline Manning, and Hildred Moser Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rôle social de la fermière; son education professionnelle, les réunions de fermières; leur organisation à l'étranger; renseignements pratiques. (A. Dewitt, 1911), by Paul de Vuyst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far from the madding crowd (Harper, 1912), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Musterhafte Oekonomie-Wirthschafterin, oder, Vollständiger Unterricht über den ganzen Umfang des weiblichen Wirkungs-Kreises auf dem Lande : nach vieljährigen Erfahrungen (C. Heymann, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women and the land. (Chatto & Windus, 1916), by Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guides for wartime use of women on farms. (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1942), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
  • illustrated HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Far from the madding crowd (Harper & brothers, 1895), by Thomas Hardy and H. Macbeth-Raeburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far from the madding crowd (Harper, 1918), by Thomas Hardy and W. T. Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far from the madding crowd (Harper, 1912), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)

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