A BEAUTIFUL MINE: Women Prospectors of the Old West, Enss. Learn about the women who worked the mines and goldfields of the American West; engagingly written; historic photos. 148 pgs., ISBN 9780762743728, $12.95
A BRIDE GOES WEST, Alderson & Smith. Story of a young bride starting married life on a ranch in Montana in 1872. An excellent book on ranch life from a woman’s point of view. 273 pgs., ISBN 9780803250017, $17.95
THE BAWDY HOUSE GIRLS: A Look at the Brothels of the Old West, Pryor. These 23 historical vignettes provide a sympathetic overview of the forlorn bordello girl of the old west; historic photos; indexed. 182 pgs., ISBN 9780974755175, $14.95
COVERED WAGON WOMEN SERIES: Diaries & Letters From the Western Trails. Edited. Through personal diaries and letters real women pioneers reveal their contributions to westward expansion from 1840 to 1903. Volume 2, 1850, 304 pgs., ISBN 9780803272743, $16.95
COVERED WAGON WOMEN SERIES: Diaries & Letters From the Western Trails. Edited. Through personal diaries and letters real women pioneers reveal their contributions to westward expansion from 1840 to 1903.
Volume 4, 1852–The California Trail, 314 pgs., ISBN 9780803272910, $17.95
COVERED WAGON WOMEN SERIES: Diaries & Letters From the Western Trails. Edited. Through personal diaries and letters real women pioneers reveal their contributions to westward expansion from 1840 to 1903.
Volume 5, 1852: The Oregon Trail. 301 pgs., ISBN 9780803272941, $17.95
COVERED WAGON WOMEN SERIES: Diaries & Letters From the Western Trails. Edited. Through personal diaries and letters real women pioneers reveal their contributions to westward expansion from 1840 to 1903. Volume 10, 1875-1883. 277 pgs., ISBN 9780803272996, $14.95
COWGIRLS: Women of the American West, Jordan. Absorbing portraits of the independent women who stood and stand shoulder to shoulder with the men; extensively illustrated with contemporary and historical photos. 310 pgs., ISBN 9780803275751, $19.95
COWGIRLS: Stories of Trick Riders, Sharp Shooters, and Untamed Women, Turner. Vignettes of a dozen women whose sacrifice, hard work and true gal-grit blazed trails and helped shape a nation; historical photos. 122 pgs., ISBN 9780762755356, $12.95
DAUGHTERS OF THE WEST. Free-wheeling ladies on high-stepping horses, daring cowgirls, Wells Fargo women and adventurous schoolmarms brighten these pages. ISBN 9780961908850
DEAR MAD’M WHO WAS SHE?, Lismer. Learn the biographical details of Stella Patterson, author of the popular title, Dear Mad’m. 160 pgs., ISBN 9780879612818, $12.95
DEAR MAD’M, Patterson. This popular account chronicles the true and captivating experiences of a big city lady who, at age 80, spent one full year on her mountain mining claim, facing the challenges of a vastly different life. 261 pgs., ISBN 9780879611317, $12.95
DOWN THE SANTA FE TRAIL AND INTO MEXICO: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847, Drumm, ed. A journal written by a young American bride who accompanied her husband on a trading expedition from Independence, Missouri to the Mexican territories during the beginning of the Mexican-American War. 298 pgs., ISBN 9780803281165, $16.95
THE GENTLE TAMERS: Women of the Old Wild West, Brown. A well written historical account of the women who tamed and travelled the west from 1850 through 1860; illustrated with historical photos; with index and notes. 317 pgs., ISBN 9780803250253, $17.95
HEARTS WEST: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier, Enss. Discover the true stories of mail-order brides of the Gold Rush era—when men made the trek west only to discover that they missed the fairer sex. 116 pgs., ISBN 9780762727568, $10.95
HIGH-SPIRITED WOMEN OF THE WEST, Seagraves. Award-winning title profiles the lives of ten courageous women from the mid-1800s through the turn of the century. ISBN 9780961908836
LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER, Stewart. Look into a rare slice of western ranch life: Mrs. Stewart was a widow with a young child when she became the wife of a western homesteader. 284 pgs., ISBN 9780803251939, $14.95
LOVE UNTAMED: Romances of the West, Chartier and Enss. Chronicles some of the most famous, passionate and tempestuous romances to stir up the western frontier; many historic photos and illustrations. 150 pgs., ISBN 9780762711420, $10.95
NO LIFE FOR A LADY, Cleaveland. A first hand reminiscence the author’s life on a New Mexico cattle ranch beginning in 1874; an entertaining narrative that also serves as an historical document of a bygone way of life; 356 pgs., ISBN 9780803258686, $17.95
OBJECT: MATRIMONY: The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier, Ens. An entertaining look at the serious business of finding a wife by mail in the wide-open days of the Old West. 154 pgs., ISBN 9780762773992, $14.95
PIONEER DOCTOR: The Story of a Woman’s Work, Graña. Learn the true story of Dr. Mary Babcock Atwater, who found freedom and opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America’s frontier west: historical photos. 344 pgs., ISBN 9780762736546, $14.95
ROSES OF THE WEST. Discover the society ladies who played important roles in the settling of the frontier, as they blazed paths for others to follow. ISBN 9780961908867
SOILED DOVES: Prostitution in the Early West. Discover the grey world of prostitution in the early west.
ISBN 9780961908843
WOMEN ICONS OF THE WEST: Five Women Who Forged the American Frontier, Danneberg. The life stories of the West’s five most courageous women: Clara Brown, Sarah Winnemucca, Nellie Cashman, Isabella Bird and Margaret “Molly” Brown. 86 pgs., ISBN 9781555916947, $14.95
WOMEN OF THE SIERRA. Fascinating stories of 15 women settlers of the Sierras, from doctor to innkeeper to actress and cowhand. ISBN 9780961908812
WOMEN OF THE WEST, Sheafer. Discover the lives of the actresses, courtesans, missionaries, Wells Fargo agents, stagecoach drivers and other women of California’s Gold Country and Nevada’s Comstock region; illustrated. 152 pgs., ISBN 9781889971049, $11.95
WOMEN WHO CHARMED THE WEST. Stories and pictures of the legendary actresses who braved the hazards of the road to bring the glamour of the stage to the frontier towns of the West. ISBN 9780961908823