This chronologically selected anthology of eight literary women provides an inclusive text that makes accessible a literary tradition which begins with lost aspects of frontier life in the 1830s written by contemporaries Julia L. Dumont and Pamilla W. Ball and ends with Jessie Brown Pounds' retrospective re-creation of the Western Reserve's frontier culture at the century's close. Ohio (as well as New England and the South) was a region where a self-conscious literary tradition was cultivated. The writers in this volume explore Ohio's places and contemporary idioms in a variety of styles, yet they all attempt to define the frontier experience from their particular perspectives as Ohio women.