Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told

Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told

Features portraits of female ranchers and cowgirls who live in the American West, and anecdotes about their daily lives and thoughts about the disappearance of

This volume contains 90 striking bandw photographs about the deep interior of the American west, a place where people are defined by their relations to animals

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