Between 1840 and 1870, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic dreamers embarked on the 2,000-mile journey into the wide-open frontier of the United States in search of free land, gold, adventure, and a better life. Although only a few women were numbered among the very first pioneers, those who did take the risk changed the face of the United States forever. The Western woman left the restrictions and conventions of her way of life behind and carried the struggle of emancipation into areas sacred to the male. She competed in business and politics, bronco busting, smoking, drinking, gambling,…mehr
Between 1840 and 1870, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic dreamers embarked on the 2,000-mile journey into the wide-open frontier of the United States in search of free land, gold, adventure, and a better life. Although only a few women were numbered among the very first pioneers, those who did take the risk changed the face of the United States forever. The Western woman left the restrictions and conventions of her way of life behind and carried the struggle of emancipation into areas sacred to the male. She competed in business and politics, bronco busting, smoking, drinking, gambling, and gun-toting. This book celebrates the stories of the non-conforming, gun-toting pioneers who settled the West.
Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Best Scholarly Nonfiction Book. Enss s most recent works are The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont The Fifth Marx Brother, and The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier.
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(1) Jennie Rogers: Queen of the Denver Row (2) Eleanora Dumont: Gold Country Angel of Sin (3) Madam Harriet: A Curious Criminal Case (4) Jessie Hayman: The San Francisco Favorite (5) Jessie Reeves and Cad Thompson: Scarlet Ladies in Texas and Nevada (6) Josie Washburn: Nebraska's Reluctant Madam (7) Kate Horony: The Hungarian Madam (8) Mattie Silks: Denver's Red Light Queen (9) Florence Mabel Dedrick: Our Sister of the Street (10) Tessie Wall: Barbary Coast Madam (11) Libby Thompson: Dodge City's Squirrel Tooth Alice (12) Rose Ellis: Last of the Old West Madams
(1) Jennie Rogers: Queen of the Denver Row (2) Eleanora Dumont: Gold Country Angel of Sin (3) Madam Harriet: A Curious Criminal Case (4) Jessie Hayman: The San Francisco Favorite (5) Jessie Reeves and Cad Thompson: Scarlet Ladies in Texas and Nevada (6) Josie Washburn: Nebraska's Reluctant Madam (7) Kate Horony: The Hungarian Madam (8) Mattie Silks: Denver's Red Light Queen (9) Florence Mabel Dedrick: Our Sister of the Street (10) Tessie Wall: Barbary Coast Madam (11) Libby Thompson: Dodge City's Squirrel Tooth Alice (12) Rose Ellis: Last of the Old West Madams
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