Uses selections from diaries, public records, letters, interviews, and fiction to describe the experiences of women in the West, including Indians, servants, wa

More than 140 period photographs and excerpts from letters, diaries, books, and journals provide insight into daily life in the American West for women in the n

A riveting and previously untold history of the American West, as seen by the pioneering women who advocated for their rights amidst challenges of migration and

The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes—a tale that relegates women, assuming th

This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West. Twenty years after many Western histo