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

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

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

Volume 3 has some references to homosexuality and lesbianism in the index. -- dm.

Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and ea