With a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buff
Long before Rachel Carson’s fight against pesticides placed female environmental activists in the national spotlight, women were involved in American environmentalism. In Women and Nature: Saving the
When the first edition of this groundbreaking survey of U.S. women’s history first appeared in 1986, no one could have predicted its spectacular success and widespread support—or the vast proliferatio
Legendary comrade and consort to train robbers, bootleggers, stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle thieves, and outlaws of all stripes, Belle Starr (1848-89) was born i
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 since 1789 a number of U.S.
Presents portraits of frontier figures such as Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Belle Starr, and Jesse James, showing that the villains and heroes of the Old West in reality had many shadowed faces. Lively
In the fifth volume in this series, Etulain (U. of New Mexico) introduces nine biographical essays offering a balanced view of nine Native American and white military leaders of the Western frontier i
