Introduction: "We Can Drive Tractors"3 -- Part I Creating the Women's Land Army -- 1 Prewar Precedents 15 -- 2 Federal Government and the WLA 35 -- 3 "Now We're Set"--Outfitting the WLA 55 -- 4 "Pitch in and Help"--Calling Women to the Farms 73 -- Part II Women's Land Army in Action -- 5 East--Dorothy Thompson Led the Way 101 -- 6 West--"Ho! For a Tall Glass of Lemonade!" 109 -- 7 Midwest--In the House or in the Fields 120 -- 8 South--When Race and Class Get in the Way 135 -- 9 WLA and Postwar Women 148.