THE GENTLE TAMERS : Women of the Old Wild West

Lincoln, NB: Bison Books/Univ of Nebraska Press, 1981. First Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light surface wear. First published 1958; this is the 5th Printing of the 1981 reissue. And, who were the women who took part in the migration west? Focusing on the period of 1850 - 1880, historian and novelist Dee Alexander Brown (1908 - 2002) examines period letters and journals for answer. Best known for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), Brown writes again with much empathy; text includes stories of Elizabeth Custer, Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, among others. 16 chapters: 1, The Sunbonnet Myth; II, "Perial Lay at Every Hand"; III, The Army Girls; IV, Beau Sabreur & His Lady Fair' V, Some Ladies of Easy Virtue; VI, "Many a Weary Mile". VII, A Lodging for the Night; VIII, Vanity Conquers All; IX, " A Light Light Diverion"; X, Pink Tights & Red Velvet Skirts; XI, A Home in the West; XII, The Great Female Shortage; XIII, Wyoming Tea Party; XIV, Casting Off the Shackles; XV, Schoolmarms & Maternal Forces; and, XVI, Male Point of View