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

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

Many women of different backgrounds lived together in the American West. Former enslaved women left the racism of the Southern states to find a new life. White

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