Peter Cumming Department of English University College University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 3K7 (519) 679-2111 extension 3403 Home phone (voice and fax): (519) 272-2577 E-mail: pcumming@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca The “Gude Mon” and The “Little Pink Man”: Utopian Masculinities in Letters of a Woman Homesteader I am indebted to Christine Bold for first drawing my attention to women’s writing about the American frontier. An earlier version of this paper was presented in the “Literature Producing Masculinities" session organized by Dan Coleman and others for the ACCUTE Conference at the Learned Societies’ meetings in Calgary, Alberta, in June 1994. Discussion there, particularly questions by David Leahy on literary influences on Stewart and by Kevin McGuirk on questions of genre, contributed to the final version of this paper.