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Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90 by Anne M. Butler Publisher Comments ""Daughters of Joy will prove to be a gold mine of information, since the author's massive research makes the book a primary source as well as a thoughtful study of soiled doves on the frontier.....Butler has portrayed the stark realities of prostitution... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Covered Wagon Women Volume 1 by Kenneth L Holmes Publisher Comments The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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High-Spirited Women of the West (Women of the West) by Anne Seagraves Publisher Comments Profiles of ten courageous women who helped shape history are told in this inspiring and entertaining book. These high-spirited women left conventional roles behind, becoming America's early feminists. Some were bold and rebellious like Belle Starr and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hearts West by Joann Chartier Publisher Comments WANTED: A girl who will love, honest, true and not sour;a nice little cooing dove, and willing to work in flour. Desperate to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, thousands of men traveled West to the emerging frontier, where they outnumbered women... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Womens Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel Publisher Comments More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West by Sally Denton Publisher Comments In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West by Jo Ann Chartier Publisher Comments The curtain rises and authors JoAnn Chartier and Chris Enss shine the spotlight on 14 entertaining women who sang, danced, acted in plays, performed equestrienne feats, and captured the hearts of the miners and homesteaders of the Frontier West.... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Good time girls of the Alaska-Yukon gold rush by Lael Morgan Publisher Comments History has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Far North -- the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming gold camps of Alaska and the Yukon. Morgan offers an authentic, sympathetic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Thimble of Soil: A Woman's Quest for Land (Trail of Thread Series) by Linda K Hubalek Synopsis Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy in this second book of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855. Told through her letters, Thimble of Soil describes the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $1.48 Used - Trade Paper
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No Life for a Lady (Women of the West) by Agnes Mo Cleaveland Publisher Comments When Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term "Wild West" was a reality, not a cliché. In those days cowboys didn't know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 (Histories of the American Frontier) by Sandra L Myres Publisher Comments Myres uses extensive source material by and about women to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866 by Mollie Dorsey Sanford Publisher Comments Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself—just turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West (Women of the West) by Ann Seagraves Publisher Comments Discover the fascinating yet grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the world's oldest profession. Illustrated throughout with rare historical photos of women like Molly b' Dam, Lil' Lovell, and Mattic Silks. This strong book... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Home Lands: How Women Made the West by Virginia Scharff Publisher Comments The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes--a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. Home Lands: How Women Made the West upends this... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Roses of the West (Images of America) by Ann Seagraves List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughters of the West (Women of the West) by Anne Seagraves TOC Horse trading ladies & cattle queens -- Rodeo trail -- A little diversion -- Trail of the north wind -- The horseman was a lady -- Those Wells Fargo women -- Schoolmarms with a cause -- Petticoat prisoners.... (read more) List Price $9.56 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work by Mari Grana Publisher Comments When Mollie stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and his medical practice behind in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women of the west by Cathy Luchetti List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Womens Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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