The Quilters is an absolute gem of a book! It's a thoughtful tribute to extraordinary women who invented an art form out of scraps of cloth to record and celebrate the domestic events of families and communities living in places and times that were uniquely un-domesticated. Walter Prescot Webb, the great historian of the Great Plains, suggested the West was domesticated by the six-shooter, barbed-wire, and the spirit of remarkable men. He should have also noted the dogged spirit of the women who were The Quilters!