Portraits of Women in the American West

<p>Men are usually the heroes of Western stories but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier and their stories have rarely been told.<br><br>This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans African-Americans and Native American women as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence the subordinate status of women of color their perseverance and influence in changing that status a look at the gendered religious legacy that shaped Western Catholicism and women in the urban and rural industrial and agricultural West.</p>