Examines the various roles of women in the Old West, describing the living conditions and opportunities available to those women who broke the stereotypical picture of the tired settler's wife.
Table of Contents:
- A Man's Land
- The Madonna of the Prairies
- Laundresses and Ladies
- Teacher, Doctor, Lawyer
- Women on the Stage
- Battleaxes and Reformers
- The Outlaw Trail
- Ranch Women and Cowgirls
- A Land for Women Too
- For Further Reading
- Index
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