Debunking the myth that women in the frontier American West were either hardscrabble prostitutes or passive homemakers, ten noted historians chronicle the exploits of eleven ...
The stories of the women who helped build Iowa are told in their own words. This collection of diaries and letters show these women in their quest to break the prairies and ...
Generations of Americans have seen the West as beyond federal control and direction. But the national government’s presence in the West dates to before Lewis and Clark, and ...
