Professor Murphy is the author of A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis,
and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737 - 1832 (University of Nebraska
Press, 2000). She is the co-editor of Midwestern Women: Work, Community,
and Leadership at the Crossroads (Indiana University Press, 1997). Professor
Murphy has also written articles on the history of women, Native Americans,
and the western frontier.