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== Notable works ==
Coman and Elizabeth Kendall coauthored the 1902 book ''A Short History of England for School Use'' based on research that Coman had conducted in England between the years 1886 and 1894.<ref name=":11" /> Coman published ''The Industrial History of the United States'' <ref name=":11" /> in 1910. Considered the first industrial history of the US,<ref name=":4" /> ''The Industrial History of the United States'' was reprinted nine times during her lifetime.<ref name=":11" /> Her 1911 article, "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," was the first article published in a newly formed journal, the ''American Economic Review.''{{
Her 1912 work ''Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi''<ref name=":15" />{{Rp|xi}} was considered by contemporary economists to be Coman's ''[[magnum opus]]''.<ref name=":16" />{{Rp|166}}{{efn|According to Katharine Lee Bates, Coman's long-time companion, the book "best expresses [Coman's] vigorous and adventurous personality.<ref name=":15" />{{Rp|xi}}}} The book outlined the economic history of the American Far West.{{efn|It included chapters on the early Spanish explorers, western mission settlements, Santa Fe trade, the Russian settlements in the Pacific Northwest, the beaver fur trade, the conquest of what later became known as the US states of [[Texas]], [[New Mexico]], and [[California]], the [[Mormon pioneers|Mormon migration]] to [[Utah]], early explorers of the Far West, and the creation of the states of [[Kansas]] and [[Oregon]].<ref name=":7" />}} In this work, Coman describes the historical economic processes that led to the Far West coming under the control of American settlers, making the claim that American settlers were economically superior to explorers, traders, trappers, and local indigenous peoples because they formed stable settlements, reproduced themselves through their family structures, and established networks of collaboration.<ref name=":7" />
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