Guidon Books presents
Women of the West

In this section, Guidon Books is featuring a selection of books about the women of the American West. Included are stories of pioneer women who ventured West to start new lives, the "Wild Women of the West" who inhabited the boom towns of the frontier, and many others. You can find books written by and about Native American Indian Women. There are also volumes about women during the Civil War.

Revised February 2, 2012
* Denotes Southwest Books of the Year selection

SOLD Abrams, Jeanne E. Jewish Women Pioneering The Frontier Trail: A History in the American West. Provides a study of a story often overlooked - Jewish women on the American frontier beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush. New York University Press, 2006. Dust jacket. 39.00
Accomazzo, Betty. Arizona Cowbelles: This is Your Life. Signed by the author. 1st edition. Interesting history of the beef cattle industry in Arizona as seen through the organization of the Arizona Cowbelles. $15.00
African American Women Confront the West, 1600 - 2000. Edited by Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. Contributors to this volume explore the life experiences of African American women in the West, the myriad ways in which they influenced the experiences of the diverse peoples of the region and their legacy in rural and urban communities from Montana to Texas and California to Kansas. University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Dust jacket. $34.95
Alexander, Eveline M., Cavalry Wife: The Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867. Edited with n introduction by Sandra J. Myres. A record of her journey from New York to Fort Smith to join her cavalry-officer husband, Andrew J. Alexander, and her experiences with him on active duty among the Indian nations and in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. 1st edition. Texas A & M, 1977. Dust jacket. $35.00
SOLD Alexander, Eveline M., Cavalry Wife: The Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867. Second printing, Edited with an introduction by Sandra L. Myres. Texas A&M University Press, 1977. Soft cover. $14.95
SOLD Allen, Martha Mitten, Traveling West: 19th Century Women on the Overland Routes, 1st ed., 1987, 86 pages $10.00
Alter, Judy. Henrietta King: Rancher and Philanthropist. Illustrated by Patrick Messersmith. Young adult biography of the woman who ran the largest ranch (the King Ranch in Texas) in the United States, built a city and a railroad, and survived raids by hostile soldiers and Mexican bandits. State House Press, 2005. Casebound. $17.95
Altshuler, Constance Wynn, For Better or For Worse: Frontier Army Life, 1st edition. The Pronto Press, 1982. $8.00
Alvord, Lori Arviso and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing. Alvord describes her struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico- and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart. Bantam Books, 1999. Dust jacket. $23.95
Amatxi, Amuma, Amona: Writings in Honor of Basque Women. Edited by Linda White and Cameron Watson. A collection of stories about Basque women. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Preno, 2003. Maroon cloth. $25.00
Anderson, Greta. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women. Explores the history of the Lone Star State through the stories of ten women, Sofie Hertzog Huntington, Sara Estela Ramirez, Texas Guinan and others. TwoDot, 2002. Soft cover. $12.95
SOLD Anderson, Lorraine, ed, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose an Poetry about Nature 1st ed., (1991), $14.00
Andrews, Lynn V. Flight of the Seventh Moon: The Teaching of the Shields. Illustrated by N. Scott Momaday. Chronicles her continuing apprenticeship to the Native American shaman Agnes Whistling Elk. 1st edition. Harper & Row, 1984. Dust jacket. $20.00
Andrews, Lynn V., Star Woman: We Are Made From Stars and to the Stars We Must Return. The author joins two remarkable American Indian medicine women to further her quest for ancient knowledge and serve as the bridge between two different worlds, the primal mind and hte white conciousness. Previous owners inscription front page. Warner Books, 1986. Dust jacket. $16.95
D. Appleton & Company. Four Unusual Books by Women Brochure on books published by Appleton, including War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, Diary from Dixie and memoirs by Edith Moses. Tear in page. $8.00
The Arizona Diary of Lily Fremont, 1878-1881. 1st edition. Edited by Mary Lee Spence. In rich detail, this daughter of the governor of the Arizona Territory shares her day-by-day narrative and the editor's annotations bring to life Arizona's territorial capital of Presoctt more than one hundred years ago. University of Arizona, 1997. Dust jacket. $35.00
Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. 1988 pamphlet. Sponsored by the Arizona Historical Society and Arizona Department of Library, Archives & Public Records. $5.00
Armitage, Merle, Stella Dysart of Ambrosia Lake: Courage, Fortitude, and Uranium in New Mexico. 1st edition. The true story of an indomitable woman who pioneered in Ambrosia Lake for oil, and who now owns or controils a handsome portion of the largest uranium reserves in the United States. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1959. Dust jacket. $35.00
SOLD Avary, Marta Lockett. A Virginia Girl in the Civil War: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer. First published in 1903, this volume offers an extraordinary glimpse inside the mind of a young wife during the Civil War; it is packed with adventure and struggle, pain and joy and sensitive feminine perspective. The Narrative Press, 2004. Soft cover. $15.95
Babcock, Barbara A. and Nancy J. Parezo. Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980. 1st edition. An illustrated assessment and revision of the role that women anthropologists and scholars, as well as artists, philantgropists, and activists have played in understanding and interpreting the Native American culture of the Southwest during the last century. University of New Mexico, 1988. Dust jacket. $47.50
Baker, Pearl. Robbers Roost Recollections. The memories of ranch life in the southern Utah terrain. Utah State University Press, 1991. Soft cover. 14.95
Baldwin, Alice Blackwood. An Army Wife on the Frontier: The Memoirs of Alice Blackwood Baldwin, 1867-1877. Limited to 1,250 copies. Edited with an introduction by Robert C. and Eleanor R. Carriker. The wife of General Frank Baldwin tells her story of her time in the West - Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Former owner's name and bookplate on inside front endsheets. Tanner Trust Fund, 1975. Dust Jacket. $40.00
SOLD Bailey, Lynn, comp. & ed. Tombstone from a Woman's Point of View: The Correspondence of Clara Spalding Brown, July 7, 1880 to November 14, 1882. Mining Camp Chronicles. Westernlore Press, 2003. Soft cover. $15.00
Bancroft, Caroline. Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal. Story of the Colorado scandal. Johnson Publishing, 1958. Wraps. $5.00
Bancroft, Caroline. Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor. Illustrated. Johnson Publishing. Wraps. $4.95
Bancroft, Caroline. Six Racy Madams of Colorado. Johnson Publishing, 1965. Wraps. $4.95
Bancroft, Caroline. The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown. Illustrated with photographs from the Denver Post. Johnson Books. Wraps. $4.95
Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth-century American women - who became sexual partners (although both were married) and pioneered in the them male-dominated discipline of anthropology. 1st edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Dust jacket. $30.00
SOLD Barnett, Louise. Ungentlemany Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial. A compelling examintion of the Geddes drama, set on a remote military base in west Texas, 1879. Hill and Wang, 2000. Dust jacket. $25.00
Barnes, Kim. Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, 1st ed., 1994, 400 pages, $11.95
Baym, Nina. Women Writers of the American West, 1833 - 1927. Comprehensive guide to hundreds of women who wrote about the American West, some of them long forgotten, others better known as novelists, poets, and historians. University of Illinois Press, 2011. Pictorial casebound. $40.00
SOLD Bell, Margaret. When Montana and I were Young: A Frontier Childhood. Edited with an introduction by Mary Clearman Blew and an afterword by Lee Rostad. The story of growing up on the Montana frontier in the 1890s. University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $24.95
SOLD Belle Starr; or The Bandit Queen. Originally printed by Richard K. Fox, 1899. Facsimile with new material. Steck Co., 1960. Cloth. $27.50
Bennett, Kay and Russ. A Navajo Saga. A Navajo family history from 1846 to 1870, chronicling events such as the trip to Bosque Redondo and then back to the reservation. 1st edition. Naylor Publishing, 1969. Dust jacket. $40.00
Bennett, Kay. Kaibah: Recollections of a Navajo Girlhood. 1st edition. Presentation copy signed by the author. True account of one Navajo family and one Navajo girl, as lived by the author during the period from 1928-1935. Westernlore, 1964. Dust jacket. $38.50
Benson, Maxine. Martha Maxwell: Rocky Mountain Naturalist. 1st edition. Born in Pennsylvania in 1831 and educated in the midwest, this naturalist, taxidermist, museologist, and artist pioneered in a number of fields for women. University of Nebraska, 1986. Dust jacket. $35.00
SOLD Berke, Arnold. Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest. New color photographs by Alexander Vertikoff. The story about an extraordinary woman, weaving together three stories, the early twentieth-century career of a woman in what was then a man's profession; the creation of a building at the Grand Canyon and interior style drawn from regional history and landscape; and the exploitation of the American Southwest, largely in the hands of the railroads, for leisure travel. Filled with photographs, images from color postcards, etc. Princeton Architecture Press, 2002. Soft cover. $29.95
Best of Covered Wagon Women. Original introduction and editorial notes by Kenneth L. Homes with a new introduction by Michael L. Tate. The diaries and letters of the brave women who traveled the overland trails. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Soft cover. $19.95
Best of Covered Wagon Women: Volume 2 Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails. Edited and annotated by Kenneth L. Homes with a new introduction by Melody M. Miyamoto. The diaries and letters of the brave women who traveled the overland trails. University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Soft cover. $19.95
Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux and Josephine Waggoner. With My Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History. Edited and introduction by Emily Levine. Bettelyoun, the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie. She attempts to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Dust jacket. $45.00
SOLD Biddle, Ellen McGowan. Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife. New introduuction by Peter Cozzens. Articulate, astute observations about life in the Army; her husband was stationed on the Western plains. Frontier Classics Series. Stackpole Books, 2002. Soft cover. $12.95
SOLD Bird, Allan G. Bordellos of Blair Street: Story of Silverton Colorado's Notorious Red Light District. Signed by the author. 1st edition. The Other Shop, 1987. Soft cover. $25.00
SOLD Bird, Isabella. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Autobiography of an woman traveler in the 19th century west. Contains bookplate from Victoria College in Belfast, awarded to a female student in 1893. Binding loose. 5th edition. John Murray, 1885. Brown cloth with Victoria College seal embossed in gilt on front binding, showing wear and weathering. $40.00
Black Women in Texas History. Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre. Collection of essays by noted historians and writers on the African American women who are a significant part of the Texas heritage. Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Soft cover. $19.95
Blackman, Ann. Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy. A true story of a remarkable woman who spied for the Confederacy as a glittering Washington hostess, providing deadly accurate intelligence. Drawn from newly discovered diaries and contemporary accounts. Randon House, 2005. Dust jacket. $25.95
Blevins, Don. From Angels Hellcats to Legendary Texas Women 1836 to 1880. Eight tales of adventure, crime, courage and myster. Mountain Press, 2001. Soft cover. $12.00
Bourne, Eulalia. Nine Months is a Year at Baboquivari School. Story of Sister Bourne who lived in southern Arizona and taught school. Signed author's presentation copy. 1st edition. University of Arizona Press, 1968. Dust jacket. $40.00
Bourne, Eulalia. Ranch Schoolteacher. Recounts the heartwarming story of her unique career and the fascinating children she knew. 1st edition. University of Arizona Press, 1974. Dust jacket. $55.00
Bourne, Eulalia. Woman in Levi's. 1st edition. Autobiography of a woman who took up country school teaching and a grazing homestead in the 1930's in the San Pedro Valey in Arizona. University of Arizona, 1967. Dust jacket. $45.00
Bouvier, Virginia M. Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840: Codes of Silence. A study that indicates that gender ideology was a key ingredient that held the conquest together and helped shape indigenous behavior toward the conquerors. University of Arizona Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $40.00
SOLD Boyd, Mrs. Orsemus B. Cavalry Life in Tent and Field. Introduction by Darlis A. Miller. Autobiography of Frances Anne Mullen Boyd and her life out west in such places as Camp Date Creek in Arizona Frot Union and Fort Stanton in New Mexico, Fort Clark in Texas and Camp Halleck in Nevada. Provides great insight in the life on a military base. University of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $10.00
Breece, Hannah. A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Jane Jacobs. The tale of Breece who braved the Alaska wilderness more than a century ago to teach native children. 1st edition. Random House,1995. Dust jacket. $42.50
SOLD Breihan, Carl W. Bandit Belle. Superior, 1970. Red cloth. $30.00
Broder, Patricia Janis. Earth Sons, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. The book focuses on both traditional and modern art, offering a historical and stylistic overview of artwork belonging to fifty-seven tribes across the United States, Alaska, and Canada. St. Martin's Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $60.00
Brown, Arnold R. Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter. Provides the true, factual record based on evidence not used in earlier books. Includes rare old photographs. Rutledge Hill Press, 1991. Dust jacket. $18.95
Brown, Dee, The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old West. 1st edition. All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Previous owner's bookplate removed from front endsheet, marking on verso of title page. Barrie & Jenkins, 1973. Dust jacket with wear. $30.00
Brown, Estelle Aubrey. Stubborn Fool: A Narrative. Story of life in the Indian Service and living on the Arizona Indian reservations, 1st edition. Caxton Printers, 1952. Dust jacket with minor wear on edges. $30.00
Brown, Hugh. Lady in Boomtown: Miners and Manners on the Nevada Frontier. Introduction by Walter VanTilburg Clark. 1st edition. Brown tells the story as she lived it, giving us the first popular account of what Clark calls Nevada's "southern excitement". American West Publishing Co., 1968. Dust jacket. $25.00
Brown, Larry K. Hog Ranches of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust & Lies under Sagebrush Skies. High Plains Press1995. Soft cover. $9.95
Brown, Larry K. Petticoat Prisoners of Old Wyoming. Stories of twenty-three women's crimes. Signed by the author, limited edition of 329 copies. High Plains Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $45.00
Brown, Marion T. Marion T. Brown: Letters from Fort Sill 1886-1887. Edited by C. Richard King. The letters of Marion Taylor Brown describe the activities of a woman visiting Fort Sill in the hopes that the dry climate will restore her health. She also discusses the social life of a frontier outpost. Encino Press, 1970. Green cloth. $45.00
Brown, Wynne. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Arizona Women. Profiles the lives of twelve resourceful women from the Grand Canyon State, all born before 1900 and who displayed remarkable courage, hope and love. They include Pearl Hart, Luisa Ronstadt Espinel, Sharlot Hall, Sister Mary Fidelia McMahon and Polingaysi Yoyawayma. TwoDot, 2003. Soft cover. $10.95
Bruce, Florence Guild. Lillie of Six-Shooter Junction: The Amazing Story of Lillie Drennan and Hempstead, Texas. 1st edition. Limited edition no. 1,335. Autographed by the author and Lillie Drennan. Previous owner's name inscribed front end sheet. Naylor, 1946. Dust jacket. $40.00
Bryant, Emma Spaulding. Emma Spaulding Bryant, Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters and Diaries 1860-1900. Edited with narrative by Ruth Douglas Currie. The story of a Civil War wife of a radical Republican carpetbagger in Georgia. John Emory Bryant served with the Eighth Maine Infantry before moving to Georgia as a prominent figure in Reconstruction politics. 1st edition. Fordham University, 2004. Dust jacket. $75.00
SOLD Burke, Flannery. From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's. The first book to consider Luhan and her visitors from a New Mexican perspective; how these cultural mavens drew on modernist concepts of primitivism to construct their personal visions and cultural agendas. University Press of Kansas, 2008. Dust jacket. $34.95
SOLD Burke, John. The Legend of Baby Doe: The Colorful Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West. The story of the fabulous personality regarded as the Silver Queen, and bride of Horace Tabor. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. Dust jacket. $15.00
Burns, Mamie Sypert. This I Can Leave You: A Woman's Days on the Pitchfork Ranch. Story of living on the Texas ranch between 1942 and 1965. Foreword by David Murrah. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 1986. Dust jacket. $16.95
Burton, Gabrielle. Searching for Tamsen Donner. The author's story of trying to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner, who died with her husband George Donner after making sure that her children were safe. Mingles history and memoir. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Soft cover. $19.95
SOLD Butler, Anne M. Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries. In this pathbreaking study of women prisoners in men's penitentiaries from 1865 to 1915, draws on prison records and the words of the women themselves. University of Illinois Press, 1997. Dust jacket. $29.95
Butruille, Susan G.. Women's Voices from the Mother Lode. A remarkable book, based upon extensive research into the lives of the women who were a vital part of the California Gold Rush. Tamarack Books, 1998. Soft cover. $16.95
SOLD Butruille, Susan G.. Women's Voices from the Western Frontier, Rpt., 1995, 322 pages, $16.95
Buyer, Laurie Wagner. Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles. Reflects the life during one season on the modern-day Colorado cattle ranch. University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Soft cover. $18.95
Canfield, Gae Whitney. Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes. 1st edition. The first full-scale biography of a daughter of a Northern-Paiute chief in Western Nevada whise life was torn between two cultures on the American frontier.University of Oklahoma, 1983. Dust jacket. $32.50
Canfield Dress Shields Vintage Trade Card. Two-sided card with images of Mary Anderson and Christine Nilsson displaying what happens when Canfield Dresss Shields are not worn. c. 1880s. $7.00
Cantu, Norma Elia. Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera. 1st edition. Actual events and the authors re-created memories allow readers to experience the pivotal events of the 40s, 50s, and 60s during the summers of South Texas. University of New Mexico, 1995. Dust jacket. $22.50
Carlson, Laurie Winn. On Sidesaddles to Heaven: Women of the Rocky Mountain Mission. Candid look at the lives of women in the 1830s, how they thought and related to other people. Provides a fresh view of the pioneers of the womens' movement. Caxton Press, 1998. Soft cover. $19.95
Carlson, Paul H. and Tom Crum. Myth Memory and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker. Investigates the Battle of Pease River and the 1860 capture of Parker, contending that what became a battle in Texans' memory, broke Comanche military power and was actually a massacre, mainly of women. The authors question traditional knowledge and historiographic interpretation. Texas Tech University Press, 2010. Dust jacket. $29.95
Carrington, Frances C. My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre. Intgroduction by Shannon Smith Calitri. 1st published in 1910, Carrington recounts her adventures as an army wife on the Great Plains as well as set the record straight on her husband's involvement in the Fetterman fight. University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Soft cover. $16.95
Carrington, Margaret Irvin. Absaraka: Home of the Crows. An officer's wife, Carrington kept a journal of her stay in the outposts in the West, including her time at Fort Phil Kearney. University of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $24.95
Caughfield, Adrienne. True Women & Westward Expansion. 1st edition. The diaries and letters of ninety Texas women uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the frontier. Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $32.95
Chaput, Don. Nellie Cashman: North American Mining Frontier. Biography of a woman who worked the mining camps at Tombstone, Bisbee and other Southwest boom towns. Westernlore Press, 1995. Dust jacket. $26.95
Chartier, JoAnn and Chris Enss. Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West. Contains chapters on such women as Maude Adams, Sarah Bernhardt, Catherine Hayes, Lillie Langtry, Lillian Russell and others. TwoDot, 2003. Soft cover. $10.95
Chartier, JoAnn and Chris Enss. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: Women Women Soldiers and Patriots of the Western Frontier. Contains chapters on twelve women, including Buffalo Soldiers, nurses and scouts. TwoDot, 2004. Soft cover. $11.95
SOLD Chegin, Rita Kasch, Survivors: Women of the Southwest, 1st ed., (1991), $9.95
Church, Peggy Pond. The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos. The story of Edith Warner, Peggy Pind and many others who were touched directly by the extraordinary happenings on anciently-inhabited Pajarito Plateau. University of New Mexico Press, 1966. Dust jacket. $30.00
Churchill, Claire Warner, South of the Sunset: Interpretation of Sacajawea. 1st ed. Previous owner's bookplate on end sheet. Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936. $45.00
SOLD Clark, Sarah Wood. Women of the Wild West Shows: Beautiful Daring Western Girls. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1991. Wraps. $8.95
Clarke, Frank and Mary. Above a Common Soldier: Frank and Mary Clarke in the American West and Civil War, 1847-1872 - from Their Letters. Edited by Darlis Miller. The Clarkes traversed a large segment of the American frontier, corresponding on pioneering conditions in Wisconsin, New Mexico, "Bleeding Kansas," and discusses the Plains Indian Wars and the Civil War. University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Dust jacket. $25.00
Clayton, John. The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart. True story of a woman who arrived in the West in 1901 and later was a newspaper publisher in Cody, Wyhoming and wrote several novels that became movies. University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Soft cover. $21.95
SOLD Clayton, Roberta Flake, comp. Pioneer Women of Arizona. Brief biographical sketches of the early settlers in Arizona, including many Mormon women. Autographed. Bound in blue cloth. Np, nd. (c. 1969) $150.00
SOLD Cleaveland, Agnes Morley. No Life for a Lady. Story of life on a New Mexico ranch. Illustrated by Edward Borein. 1st edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Gray cloth. $45.00
Cleaveland, Agnes Morley. No Life for a Lady. Story of life on a New Mexico ranch. Illustrated by Edward Borein. Presentation copy signed by the author. Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Blue cloth. $40.00
Cleaveland, Agnes Morley. No Life for a Lady. Story of life on a New Mexico ranch. Illustrated by Edward Borein. University of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $16.95
Cleere, Jan. Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers. Early Arizona girls were expected to care for younger children, cook and clean, wash clothes, milk cows, tend gardens and round up wandering herds in a hard and unfamilary landscape. Each of the eleven headstrong girls profiled strained against the confines of her chores, choosing to explore and embrace the wildly beautiful land that is today's Arizona - even if it meant disobeying elders or risking her life. Meet: Olive An Oatman, an Indian captive; Laurette Lowell, an artist who rose above her physical disabilities; Rutho Okimoto, a highly educated Japanese-American girl; Edith Jane Bass, a Grand Canyon wrangler. TwoDot, 2008. Soft cover. $12.95
Cleere, Jan. Levi's & Lace: Arizona Women Who Made History. Stores of more than 35 heoric women of Arizona, including Lozen who fought with her Apache people, Mria Urquides, working for a bilingual teaching program and Mary Colter and her work at the Grand Canyon. Rio Nuevo, 2011. Soft cover. $14.95
Cleere, Jan. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women. Profiles the lives of twelve resourceful women who displayed remarkable courage as they broke through social, cultural, and political barriers to advance women's roles. Twodot, 2005. Soft cover. $10.95
SOLD Clough, Wilson O. Mini-Aku, Daughter of Spotted Tail. Reprinted from Annals of Wyoming, October 1967. Wraps. $5.00
Cofer, Irene Cornwall. The Lunch Tree. Story of a pioneer Arizona woman. 2nd edition. H & H Printers, 1969. Soft cover. $10.00
SOLD Coffey, David. Soldier Princess: The Life & Legend of Agnes Salm-Salm in North America, 1861-1867. The remarkable story of a woman whose family was involved in the American Civil War, the end of Maximilian's Mexican Empire, and the Franco-Prussian War. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $24.95
Coleman, Jane Candia. I, Pearl Hart. 1st edition. It was while she was awaiting trial for an armed stagecoach robbery that newspaper reporters dubbed Pearl Hart the "Bandit Queen." Five Star, 1998. Dust jacket. $18.95
Coleman, Jane Candia, Shadows in my Hands: Southwestern Odyssey, 1st ed., 1993, 117 pages, $23.00
Coltelli, Laura. Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Rpt, 1990, 209 pages, $35.00
SOLD Cook, Mary J. Straw. Dona Tules: Santa Fe's Courtesan and Gambler. The story of Gertrudis Barcedlo, New Mexico's celebrated gamble and demimonde of the 1830s and 1840s. Her card games became legendary as well as her assistance to the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Dust jacket. $21.95
Cooper, Courtney Ryley. Annie Oakley Woman at Arms: A Biography. The classic biography that separates the facts from the many legends. Legends of the West. Reprint. Konecky & Konecky. Dust jacket. $30.00
Corbusier, Fanny Dunbar. Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, 1869-1908. Edited by Patricia Y. Stallard. Her memoirs recount her years with her army surgeon husband [ see the Wild West - Military page for the books by Corbusier] - discussing the many moves, coping with the primitive living conditions - including the army posts in Arizona in the 1870s, and raising five sons. 1st edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Dust jacket. $29.95
SOLD Cordier, Mary Hurlbut. Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives From Iowa, Knasas, and Nebraska, 1860s- 1920s. Focuses on the women responsible for edeucating prairie children. University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Soft cover. $18.95
SOLD Cowdrey, Mary Baynton, The Checkered Years, 1st ed., 1937, 265 pages, $30.00
SOLD Crandall, Judy, Cowgirls: Early Images and Collectibles. A true reference work with detailed captions provide the reader with rodeo lore as well as biographical accomplishments of ext6raordinary women. Schiffer, 1994. Soft cover. $19.95
Crane, Stephen. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Introduction by John H. Jenkins. Pemberton Press, 1978. Wraps. $12.50
Crary, Margaret, Susette La Flesche: Voice of the Omaha Indians. This Omaha Indian not only claimed for herself the right to an education but also went on to champion the rights of citizenship for all Indians. Hawthorn Books, 1973. Dust jacket. $25.00
Crow Dog, Mary with Richard Erdoes. Lakota Woman. Biography of Mary Brave Bird, growing up on the Rosebud Reservation, missionary school, and being part of AIM. 1st edition. Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Dust jacket. $18.95
SOLD Cummins, Light Townsend. Emily Austin of Texas 1795-1851. Biography of the sister of Stephen Austin, who witnessed the historic transformation of Texas from a young coloney disrupted by revolution, to a proud republic entering antebellum statehood. Cummins used extensive correspondence to craft a narrative filled with detailed depictions of relations, daily work and momentous events. TCU Press, 2009. Dust jacket. $27.95
SOLD Cunningham, Patricia A. Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art. Drawing on broad variety of primary and secondary sources in the United States and Europe - including the popular press, advice books for women, allopathic and alternative medical literature and books on aesthetics, art, health, and physical education, this volume makes a significant contribution to costume studies, social history, and women's studies. 1st edition. Kent State University Press, 2003. Dust jacket. $45.00
Curnow, Alice J. The Journey with Tom: Memories of an Arizona Pioneer Woman. Edited by Mona Lange McCroskey. Curnow arrived in Arizona in 1881 on a train and then rode a stagecoach to Florence and then Globe. After the turn of the century, they moved to the Salt River Valley. 1st edition. HollyBear Press, 2003. Soft cover. $20.00
Daniels, Zeke. Life and Death of Julia C. Bulette: Queen of the Red Lights.1st edition. Illustrated by Ben Christy. Story of a popular woman living in the California mining camps in the 1860's and was ultimately strangled to death in her cabin for her money and jewels. Lamp Post, 1958. Dust jacket. $30.00
SOLD Danneberg, Julie. Amidst the Gold Dust: Women Who Forged the West. Brief chapters on Sarah Winnemucca, Molly Brown, Nellie Cashman, Clara Brown, Isabella Bird. Fulcrum Resources, 2001. Soft cover. $12.95
de la Garza, Phyllis. Silk and Sagebrush: Women of the Old West. Chapters of the most fascinating characters, including Anna Surratt, Apache May, Elizabeth Custer and Julia Bulette. Silk Label Books, 2004. Soft cover. $9.99
SOLD De Pauw, Linda Grant. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present. 1st edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. $24.95
De Pauw, Linda Grant and Conover Hunt. "Remember the Ladies" Women in America, 1750-1815. This book makes it possible for us to understand the demands of what early American life was actually like and to applaud the forgotten heroism of our revolutionary women. Wonderful illustrations. Viking Press, 1976. Dust jacket. $25.00
Deacon, Desley, Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life, 1st ed., (1997), 520 pages, $29.95
SOLD Dempsey, David and Raymond Baldwin. The Triumphs and Trails of Lotta Crabtree. Previous owner's presentation. 1st edition. William Morrow, 1968. Dust jacket. $35.00
SOLD Denton, Sally. Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West. Story of Jean Rio who traveled across America in the 1850s while providing a history of the early Mormon experience. 1st edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Dust jacket. $23.00
The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art. 1st edition. Edited by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk. The first major study of the intertwinings of gender and landscape in the American southewest. Yale University, 1987. Dust jacket. $39.95
Dewitt, Mirian Hapgood. Taos: A Memory. Introduction by Lois Palken Rudnick and afterword by Edward Bright. Recollections of a young woman who came to Taos to visit Mael Dodge Luhan and her life there. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 1992. Dust jacket. $25.00
Deyhle, Donna. Reflections in Place: Connected Lives of Navajo Women. Woven together are three generations and twenty-fiveyears of friendship, interviews and rich experience with Navajo women. University of Arizona Press, 2009. Soft cover. $24.95
Doan, May Cargill. I Wouldn't Trade These Yesterdays: The Reminiscenced of May Cargill Doan. Edited by Andrew Wallace. Story of her life in Arizona. Reprinted from the Journal of Arizona History, 1965. Arizona Pioneers' Historical Scoety, 1966. Gray wraps. $12.50
Dodge, L. Mara. "Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind" A Study of Women, Crime and Prisons, 1835-2000. Traces the changing patterns of women's crime and punishment. Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Soft cover. $22.50
Douglas, Claire. The Old Woman's Daughter: Tranformative Wisdom for Men and Women. Foreword by David H. Rosen. Excactly a western topic, but it might be interesting for the Jungian students. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Dust jacket. $23.95
SOLD Drago, Gail, Etta Place: Her Life and Times with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1st ed., 1996, 285 pages $12.95
SOLD Drago, Harry Sinclair. Notorious Ladies of the Frontier. Shady ladies kept pace wit the advancing frontier. One page torn at bottom. Dodd, Mead, 1969. Dust jacket. $40.00
SOLD Dumont, Ella Elgar Bird, An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer, 1st ed., (1988), 227 pages, $22.95
Dunlap, Kate. The Montana Gold Rush Diary of Kate Dunlap. Edited and Annotatedby S. Lyman Tyler. Besides the diary, the book contains an Emigrants Guide and information about the Dunlaps and the Montana Mining Region. Limited edition of 2000 copies prited by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. Fred Rosenstock, Old West Publishing, 1969. Oversize casebound with historic map of Montana and cloth spine, corners rubbed. $30.00
Dyer, Mrs. D. B. Fort Reno, or, Picturesque "Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Army Life," before the Opening of "Oklahoma." With a new introduction by David Dary. Ida Dyer was the daughter of a U. S. Congressman and wife of an Indian agent. She followed her husband to the Darlington Indian Agency, based near Fort Reno, where she experienced the ups and downs of life at a frontier outpost. Stackpole Books, 2005. Soft cover. $19.95
Eales, Anne Bruner, Army Wives on the American Frontier: Living by the Bugles. 1st edition. This survey of nineteenth-century military life is seamlessly woven from the stories of fifty military wives, and gives a glimpse of the army seldom seen before. Johnson Books, 1996. Soft cover. $16.95
Ellis, Anne. The Life of an Ordinary Woman. Foreword by Elliott West, introduced by Lucy Fitch Perkins. First published in 1929, this is the autobiography of girlhood and young womanhood in the mining camps of Colorado. University of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $9.95
SOLD Ellis, Anne, Plain Anne Ellis, 1st ed., 1931, 265 pages, $25.00
SOLD Ellis, Martha Downer, Bell Ranch Glimpses, 1st ed., (1980), 139 pages $30.00
SOLD Elmore Grace Brown, Heritage of Woe: The Civil War Diary of Grace Brown Elmore, 1st ed. edited. by Marli F. Weiner, (1997), 225 pages, $40.00
Emery, Emma Wilson. Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods. A story of Texas life. Encino Press, 1969. Dust jacket. $15.00
Enss, Chris. Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Tells the stories and celebrates the achievments of thrill-seeking women through historic photos, authentic publicity posters and meticulous research. TwoDot, 2006. Soft cover. $12.95
Enss,Chris. The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West. Stores of Susan La Flesche, Bethenia Owens Adair, Floria Hayward Stanford, Franc Johnson Newcomb and others. TwoDot, 2006. Soft cover. $12.95
Enss, Chris. Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier. Brings to life true stories of these brides of the Gold Rush era, some finding mates, others in desperate situations. 1st edition. Twodot, 2005. Soft cover. $10.95
Enss, Chris. The Lady was a Gambler: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West. Chapters on such ladies as Belle Ryan Cora, Alive Ivedrs, Lottie Deno, Minnie Smith and Mary Hamlin. Two Dot, 2008. Soft cover. $12.95
Enss, Chris. Pistol Packin' Madams: True Stories of Notorious Women of the Old West. Stories about such women as Rose Ellis, Mattie Silks, Tessie Wall, and Jessie Hayman. Twodot, 2006. Soft cover. $10.95
Evans, Max and Candy Moulton, eds. Hot Biscuits: Eighteen Stories by Women and Men of the Ranching West. A marvelous collection of stories from the modern ranching West. University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $24.95
SOLD Evans, Max. Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan. A complete picture of the prostitution business as it was practiced in the West from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $35.00
Evans, Max. Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan. University of New Mexico Press. Soft cover. $17.95
Exhibition of Models for a Monument to Pioneer Women.Presented by the Denver Post in the Chessman Memorial, Denver. 1927. Wraps. $10.00
SOLD Exley, Jo Ella Powell. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women. Texas A&M University Press, 1996. Dust jacket. $29.95
Fain, Eliza Rhea Anderson. Sanctified Trial: The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain, a Confederate Woman in East Tennessee. The Civil War diary of a woman with strong religious faith and equally strong proslavery convictions. Her husband and five sons fought on the side of the South in a sharply divided East Tennessee. Voices of the Civil War series. 1st edition. University of Tennessee Press, 2004. Dust jacket. $42.00
Farley, Ronnie. Women of the Native Struggle: Portraits & Testimony of Native American Women. Stories of mothers, activists, artists, environmentalists, and community leaders, whether living on reservations or cities, they have struggled to preserve an ancient culture and a land under siege. Orion Books, 1993. Soft cover. $22.00
Farley, Ronnie. Cowgirls: Contemporary Portraits of the American West. Stories of real women working on the ranches and compete in rodeos. 1st edition. Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995. Soft cover. $24.00
Faunce, Hilda. Desert Wife. Introduction by Frank Waters. Compelling narrative of the wife of an Indian trader with the Navajos before World War I. University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Soft cover. $19.95
Fawcett, Melissa Jayne. Medicine Trail: The Life and Lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon. Blending autobiography and history with traditional knowledge and ways of life, we learn about the Mohegan culture and people. 1st printing. University of Arizona Press, 2000. Dust jacket. $45.00
Ferris, Jeri, Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte. Dr. LaFlesche was born on the Plains and this is her story of heroism in dealing with the white man. Carolrhoda Books, 1991. Soft cover. $6.95
Fink, Augusta. I - Mary: A Biography of Mary Austin.University of Arizona Press, 1983. Dust jacket. $27.50
First Persons First Peoples: Native American College Graduates tell their Stories.1st edition. Edited by Andrew Garrod and Colleen Larimore. A compelling portrait of the anguish Native American students feel justifying the existence of their own cultures not only to other students but also throughout the predominantly white institutions they have joined. Cornell University, 1997. Dust jacket. $39.95
The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories. Edited and with an introduction by Lee Schweninger. Presents richly detailed, vivid and widely varied accounts by women pioneers during the late nineteenth century. The narratives cover, white American-born, European and Native American women contending with different circumstances. University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Soft cover. $35.00
Fischer, Ron W. Nellie Cashman: Frontier Angel. Talei Publishers, 2000. Soft cover. $22.95
Fischer, Ron W. Nellie Cashman: Frontier Angel. Talei Publishers, 2000. Case bound. $34.95
Fischer-West, Lucy. Child of Many Rivers: Journeys To & From the Rio Grande. Foreword by Denise Chavez. Here is a story not so much about the great rivers, vividly remembered, that have run through West's rich and complex life and travels - but of all the deeper currents that run through all our lives from their sacred sources: all the strong and generous women. Texas Tech-University Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $21.95
Fisher, Linda A. and Carrie Bowers. Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend. Biography of the first womn in America to own and operate a circus before she became the wife of Wild Bill. University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Dust jacket. $29.95
Fisk, Erma J. The Peacocks of Baboquivari. This journal tells of Fisk's five months spent living in a sixteen-by-twenty-foot rock cabin in the isolated canyon to which she packed in supplies over a road that deterred most visitors, and where she served as guardian and hostess to those who climbed the Peak. Norton, 1983. Dust jacket. $22.50
SOLD Flake, Lucy Hanna White. To the Last Frontier: Autobiography of Lucy Hanna White Flake. Story of an Arizona Mormon pioneer. Privately printed. Casebound. $30.00
Flood, Elizabeth Clair. Cowgirls: Women of the Wild West. Photographs by William Manns and foreword by Dale Evans. Illustrated with more than 450 color photographs and historic images, COWGIRLS: Women of the Wild West pays tribute to the life and legacy of the pioneer woman in the American West, who worked on ranches, performed in Wild West Shows, and competed in the rodeo arena. Zon, 2000. Dust jacket. $45.00
Foard, Sheila Wood. Harvey Girl. Written by a docent at a Harvey House in Mew Mexico, she interviewed former Harvey Girls to get their stories first hand to write this historical fiction. Texas Tech University Press, 2006. $16.95
Foley, Doris, The Divine Eccentric: Lola Montez and the Newspaper, 1st edition. The amazing story of Lola Montez, European actress who fled to California and became a legend durring the California Gold Rush. Westernlore Press, 1969. $28.50
Foote, Cheryl J. Women of the New Mexico Frontier 1846-1912. A collection of essays that includes biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of life who helped bring about the Americanization of New Mexico Territy from the Mexican War until statehood in 1912. University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Soft cover. $19.95
SOLD Foote, Mary Hallock. A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote. Edited by Rodman W. Paul. The moving story of a girl who moved from the Quaker farm on the Hudson River to her life out west. Huntington Library, 2003. Soft cover. $16.95
Fougera, Katherine Gibson. With Custer's Cavalry. From the memoirs of the late Katherine Gibson, widow of Captain Francis M. Gibson of the 7th Cavalry. Illustrated with photographs. Gibson describes a phase of army life during the 1870s and 1980s. At her instance, Captain Gibson refused a transfer that would have placed him at the Little Bighorn. University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Soft cover. $24.95
Fought, Leigh. Southern Womanhood & Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord 1810-1879. A exciting narrative that follows McCord from her childhood as daughter of a state representative and president of the Bank of the United States through her efforts as wife and mother, her career as an author and plantation mistress, and the Union invasion of South Carolina during the Civil War. Fought analyzes her poetry, letters and essays in an effort to comprehend her acceptance of slavery and submission of women. University of Missour Press, 2003. Dust jacket. $32.50
Frail Prisoners in Yuma Territorial Prison. 1st edition. Signed by the editior. Edited by Ben T. Traywick. 3.069 prisoners passed through the Yuma prison, 29 of which were women- referred to as frail prisoners. Red Marie's Bookstore, 1997. Soft cover. $14.95
SOLD Freilicher, Susan. Medicine Women, 1st ed., (1993), $30.00
Fremont, Lily. Arizona Diary of Lily Fremont 1878-1881, edited by Mary Lee Spence. 1997. $35.00
SOLD Fremont, Jessie Benton. The Letters of Jessie Benton Fremont, 1st ed., (1993), $39.95
Furman, Necah Stewart. Caroline Lockhart: Her Life and Legacy. Story of the author of best-selling Western adventure novels, championing the region and culture. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1994. Dust jacket. $35.00
Gansler, Laura Leedy. The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmons, Civil War Soldier. The remarkable story of one heroic woman who defended her adopted country; the only woman ever awarded a full solder's pension for her service during the Civil War. Free Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $25.00
Gardner, Sarah E. Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Dust jacket. $39.95
Garza, Hedda. Latinas: Hispanic Women in the United States. An award winning study that challenges myths and vividly conveys the historic and contemporary struggles of Latinas. University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Soft cover. $17.95
SOLD Gentry, Curt, The Madams of San Francisco: A Highly Irrelevant History of the City by the Golden Gate, 1st ed., 1964, 323 pages, $30.00
SOLD Gentry, Diane Koos, Enduring Women, 1st edition. Intensely personal look into the lives of ten diverse American women, not money and power, but personal courage, physical strength, and indomitable will. Texas A&M, 1988. Soft cover. $16.95
SOLD Gerson, Noel B., Because I Love Him: The Life and Loves of Lillie Langtry, 1st ed., 1971, $22.50
SOLD Getlein, Frank, Mary Cassatt Paintings and Prints, Rpt., (1980), $25.00
Giglio, Virginia, Southern Cheyenne Woman's Songs. 1st edition. An overview of Cheyenne culture and history as well as analyses of thirty-two songs and their variants. University of Oklahoma, 1994. Dust jacket. $29.95
Gilchriest, Gail. The Cowgirl Companion: Big Skies, Buckarros, Honky Tonks, Lonesome Blues, and Other Glories of the True West. Introduction by Dale Evans. Extensively illustrated. 1st edition. Hyperion, 1993. Soft cover. $10.95
Glancy, Diane, Trigger Dance. 1st edition. (1990), $18.95
Glenna Goodacre: The First 25 Years. 1st edition. Autographed by Goodacre. Around 200 black and white photos of the artists wonderful sculptures. Museum of Texas Tech, 1995. $50.00
Goeres-Gardner, Diane L. Murder, Morality and Madness: Women Criminals in Early Oregon. A wonderful job in uncovering the secret past of abuse, neglect and double-standards for women criminals. Caxton Press, 2009. Soft cover. $16.95
Golden, Gertrude. Red Moon Caled Me: Memoirs of an Indian Service Schoolteacher. 1st edition. Naylor Company. $30.00
Goodman, Susan and Carl Sawson. Mary Austin and the American West. Biography explores Austin's life and achievement with unprecendented resonance, depth, and understanding. University of California Press, 2008. Dust jacket. $29.95
Gordon, Linda, Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, 1st edition, Harvard Press, 1999, Dust Jacket, $29.95
Gordon, Ruth Leedy, Portrait of a Teacher: Mary Elizabeth Post 1841-1934. A biography of Mary Elizabeth Post, who settled in Yuma, Arizona in 1872 and there resided until her death in 1934. One of the foremost teachers of the western frontier. Self published, 1990. Tan soft cover. $15.00
Grace & Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women. Edited by Katie Sherrod. From pioneer women to the movers and shakers of the mid-twentieth century, this book explores the lives and careers of the prominent and not-so prominent alike. TCU Press, 2007. Dust jacket. $32.50
Grana, Mari. Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work. True story of Dr. Mary (Mollie) Babcock Atwater, a medicine woman on America's frontier Rocky Mountain West. Twodot, 2005. Soft cover. $14.95
Grattan, Virginia L. Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth. The first biography of this extraordinary woman. Illustrated. 1st edition. Northland Press, 1980. Soft cover. $12.00
Gray, Dorothy. Women of the West. Introduction by Paula Mitchell Marks. Offers portraits of independent-minded women such as Sacajawea, Narcissa Whitman, Susette La Flesche and Willa Cather. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Soft cover. $15.00
Green, Rayna. Women in American Indian Society. A study of a misrepresented, if not entirely neglected, by mainstream scholars - a discussion of native women and their roles in society. Chelsea House, 1992. Soft cover. $8.95
Green, Richard. Te Ata: Chickasaw Storyteller, American Treasure. 1st edition. Extensive research done by the Chickasaw Nation tribal historian and access to Te Ata's papers and memorabilia make this a rewarding book. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $34.95
Greenwood, Kathy L. Heart Diamond. Introduction by Elmer Kelton and illustrations by Charles Shaw. An account of growing up on a small ranch in southeastern New Mexico. 1st edition. University of North Texas Press, 1990. Dust jacket. $30.00
Grierson, Alice Kirk. An Army Wife's Cookbook with Household Hints and Home Remedies. Compiled and edited by Mary L. Williams, Fort Davis National Historic Site. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1972. Spiral bound. $22.50
SOLD Grierson, Alice Kirk. The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson. Edited by Shirley Anne Leckie. Alice was the wife of Benjamin H. Grierson, a major general in the Civil War who won fame for a raid that contributed to the fall of Vicksburg. University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Dust jacket. $37.50
Grierson, Alice Kirk. The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson. Edited by Shirley Anne Leckie. Alice was the wife of Benjamin H. Grierson, a major general in the Civil War who won fame for a raid that contributed to the fall of Vicksburg. University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Soft cover. $17.95
Hacker, Margaret Schmidt. Cynthia Ann Parker: The Life and the Legend. A fascinating and dependable account of a nine-year old girl abducted by the Indians and returned almost 15 years later. 1st edition. Texas Western Press, 1990. Soft Cover. $15.00
SOLD Hacker, Shyrle Pedlar. A Gold Miner's Daughter: Memoirs of a Mountain Childhood. Charming stories of growing up in northern Nevada. Johnson Books, 1996. Soft cover. $15.95
Hadlock, Adah. My life in the Southwest; the Memoir of Adah Hadlock, early day El Pasoan, amateur artist, champion golfer, avid wildcatter and gold seeker. Introduced and annotated by Kenneth A. Goldblatt. Story of an El Paso pioneer. Texas Western Press, 1969. Dust jacket. $50.00
Hafen, Mary Ann. Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier. Introduction by Donna Toland Smart. The story of a pioneer who traveled with her parents when she was six years old, detailing the hard work, the loss of loved ones, and pleasures great and small. University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Soft cover. $8.95
SOLD Hahn, Emily. Mabel: A Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan. 1st edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Dust jacket. $27.50
Hale, Janet Campbell, Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter. 1st edition. In this collection of essays, Hale evokes the desperate life of a women hemmed by poverty- and draws telling parallels to her own experiences as a single mother on welfare. Random House, 1993. Dust jacket. $18.00
Hall, SarahHarkey. Surviving on the Texas Frontier: The Journal of an Orphan Girl in San Saba County. Introduction by Paul Mitchell Marks. Personal recollections of life in nineteenth century Texas. Eakin Press, 1996. Dust jacket. $22.95
Halsell, Grace, Bessie Yellowhair. 1st edition. In this startling Journal of a white woman who lived among Navajos and passed as an Indian among whites, you come to know exactly how it fells, day after day, to be identified with our oldest and most oppressed minority. Morrow, 1973. Dust jacket. $18.50
SOLD Halsell, Grace. In Their Shoes. The story of a journalist who lives as others. Texas Christian University Press, 1996. Dust jacket. $24.95
SOLD Hapsten, Elizabeth, Settlers Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains, 1st ed., 1991, 252 pages, $24.95
Harris, LaDonna. LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life. Edited by H. Henrietta Stockel. Story of a Comanche woman who has become one of the most influential, inspired, and determioned Native Ameicans and politics. University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Dust jacket. $30.00
A Harvest Yet To Reap. Edited by Linda Rasmussen, et al. A history of women in early settlements on the Canadian Prairies with abundant reproductions of old photos accompanied by excerpts from original writings/interviews. The Women's Press, 1976. Soft cover. $17.50
Hasselstrom, Linda. Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plains. 1st edition. Chronicles one woman's life on the grasslands of western South Dakota as she struggles to balance the demands of the family and the ranch with a yearning for something more. The author embarks upon a voyage of self-discovery, and along the way, paints an intimate portrait of family, love, ranching, community and survival on the Great Plains. Lyons Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $22.95
Hasselstrom, Linda. Going Over East: Reflections of a Woman Rancher. 1st edition. This South Dakotan poet, essayist, and working ranch woman stuctures her narration around the opening and closing of gates as she "goes over east" en route to the summer pasture. Fulcrum, 1987. Dust jacket. $13.95
Hayes, Elsie. Very Lovingly Yours, Elsie: Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916. Memoirs compiled by Barbara Anne Waite. Recollections of a young woman who lived in the Verde Valley and taught in Cornville. Filled with journal entries, photographs and insight in the early history of northwestern Arizona. Signed by Waite. Palomar Mountain Bookworks, 2011. Soft cover. $15.00
SOLD Haywood, C. Robert. Victorian West: Class & Culture in Kansas Cattle Towns. A fascinating social history that discusses culture in a place in transition. University Press of Kansas, 1991. Soft cover. $14.95
Healy, Frank Dale IV. Frank Belle Dow Healy: A Woman to Remember - Settling the West - "No Mans Land" A pioneer in the Oklahoma territory. DDH Press, 1992. Wraps. $4.50
SOLD Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, Letters from Honey Hill: A Women's View of Homesteading 1914-1931, 1st ed., (1986), $45.00
Herndon, Sarah Raymond. Days on the Road Crossing the Plains in 1865: The Diary of Sarah Raymond Herndon. Foreword by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien. Story of woman and her family headed west towards the Rocky Mountains after the Civil War. Originally printed in 1902. TwoDot, 2003. Soft cover. $9.95
Herr, Pamela. Jessie Benton Fremont: A Biography. A definitive work, capturing the glory and despair of Jessie Benton Fremont. University of Oklahoma Press. Soft cover. $21.95
Herr, Pamela. Jessie Benton Fremont: A Biography. A definitive work, capturing the glory and despair of Jessie Benton Fremont. 1st edition. Franklin Watts, 1987. Dust jacket. $35.00
Hicks, Edwin P. Belle Starr and her Pearl. Presentation copy signed by the author. Foreword by Homer Croy. A biography of the famed woman outlaw and the travels into new fields, including who killed her, while rebuking older myths. Pioneer Press, 1975. Dust jacket. $35.00
Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest. Edited by Nancy J. Parezo. Foreword by Nathalie F.S. and Richard B. Woodbury. For much of the twentieth century, women scholars, writers, curators, and philanthropists have played important roles in the study of Native American cultures of the Southwest, but their work which has often been overlooked is rectified here through a series of essays. University of New Mexico, 1993. $47.50
SOLD Hiestand, Elizabeth F. An Army Doctor's Wife on the Frontier: Letters from Alaska and the Far West, 1874-1878. Edited by Abe Laufe. 1st edition. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962. Dust jacket. $45.00
Hilden, Patricia Penn, When Nickels Were Indians: An Urban Mixed-Blood Story. 1st edition. In this memoir, the author comes to terms with the cultural and visual analogues of blood quantum, the measure of American Indian heritage now codified under certain laws. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Dust jacket. $29.95
SOLD Hogan, Linda. Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World. 1st ed., (1995), $21.00
Holbrook, Stewart H. Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People. Includes stories of Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill, General Wallace, and Luke Short. 1st edition. Macmillan Co., 1948. Dust jacket. $15.00
Holden, Frances Mayhugh. Lambshead Before Interwoven: Texas Range Chronicle 1848-1878. Drawings by John Guerin. The story of two families along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. Texas A&M University Press, 1997. Dust jacket. $24.95
Holdredge, Helen, Firebelle Lillie: Life and Times of Lillie Coit of San Francisco. 1st edition. Lillie came west with ther parents in 1851 at the age of seven, following a tragic fire that killed two of her playmates, became the regular mascot of the Knickerbocker Fire Comapny. Meredith, 1967. $20.00
Holdredge, Helen, House of the Strange Woman, 1st ed., 1961, 244 pages, $25.00
SOLD Holdredge, Helen, The Woman in Black, 1st ed., 1955, 308 pages, $15.00
Holland, Ellen Bowie, Gay as a Grig: Memories of a North Texas Girlhood. Tales of life in Weatherford Texas. University of Texas Press, 1970. Dust jacket. $18.50
SOLD Holland, Ada Morehead, Brush Country Woman, 1st ed., (1988), $24.95
Hollenback, Amelia. Immortal Summer: A Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest - The 1897 Letters and Photographs of Amelia Hollenback. 1st edition. Edited and annotated by Mary J. Straw Cook. A wonderful snapshot of time taken by two sisters during a southwestern adventure. University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $45.00
Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890, vol. 1, 1840-1890, 1st edition. Arthur H. Clark, 1983. $55.00
Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890, vol. 6, 1853-1854, Rpt., 1994, $35.00
SOLD Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890, vol. 9, 1864-1868, Rpt., 1990, $35.00
Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890, vol. 11, 1879-1903. Arthur H. Clark, 1993, $40.00
Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890. 11 volumes, all 1st editions. Arthur H. Clark, 1983-1993. Blue Cloth. $650.00
Horan, James D. Desperate Women. A baker's dozen tales of lovely ladies, four from the Civil War and nine from the western frontier, all daring, all ready to risk their lives for an ideal or for a man. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. Mustard cloth. $35.00
Horgan, Paul. The Artifice of Henriette Wyeth: Blue Light, 1st ed., (1994), $35.00
Horne, Esther Burnett and Sally McBeth. Essie's Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher. The spirited story of an inspiring educator in Indian boarding schools. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Dust jacket. $35.00
Houk, Rose. The Pioneer Women. Westward Expansion Series No. 2. A brief look at women on the Western frontier - for the young adult but with great information and illustrations. Jefferson National Parks Association, 1999. Wraps. $2.95
House, Ellen Enshaw. A Very Violent Rebel - The Civil War Diary of .....1st ed., edited. by Daniel E. Sutherland, (1996), 285 pages, $34.00
SOLD Howard, Dorothy, Dorothy's World: Childhood in Sabine Bottom 1902-1910, 1st ed., (1977), $20.00
Hudson, Grace Carpenter. The Pomo: Gifts and Visions. Paintings of Pomo Indian women and children by Hudson. Exhibition and catalog. 1984. Soft cover. $25.00
[Hudson, Grace Carpenter] Boynton, Searles R. The Pomo Indian Portraits of Grace Carpenter Hudson. in The American West September/October 1977. Soft cover. $12.50
Hudson, Kathleen. Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs. A contribution to women's history and song, discussing a wide variety of musical genres and the people who made their mark. University of Texas Press, 2007. Dust jacket. $39.95
Hufsmith, George, Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889. Controversial story of the lynching of Cattle Kate and Jim Averell in Wyoming. High Plains Press, 1993. Soft cover. $13.50
Hum-Ishu-Ma "Mourning Dove". Cogewea, The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range. 1st edition. Notes and biographical sketch by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter. Perhaps the first known novel by a native American woman, an Okanogan of eastern Washington. University of Nebraska, 1981. Red cloth. $30.00
SOLD Hunter, Rodello, Wyoming Wife: A Woman's Discovery of Her Husband's Outdoor World, 1st ed., 1969, Autographed, $35.00
SOLD Hunter, Rodello, House of Many Rooms: Family Memoir, 1972, 240 pages, $15.00
Hutchens, Alice. The Gift of Little Things. 1st edition. Signed by the author. Autobiography of a pioneer woman and her hardships and heartaches and the joy of being a part of the beautiful Montana wilderness when the nearest neighbor was a mile away and the only transportation was on horseback or afoot. Caxton, 1968. Dust jacket. $45.00
Indian Women of Early Mexico. Edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett. The first comprehensive collection of substantive essays about indigenous women in prehispanic and colonial North America. University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Dust jacket. $25.00
SOLD Iversen, Kristen. Molly Brown Unraveling the Myth: The True Life Story of the Titanic's Most Famous Survivor. An entertaining and intelligent biography. Johnson Books, 1999. Soft cover. $18.00
Jacobs, Margaret D. Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures 1879-1934. Explores the changing relationship between Anglo-American women and Pueblo Indians before and after the turn of the century. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Black cloth. $50.00
James, Monica. Buckskin Bessie: Her Lost Letters. The Biography of a woman who performed with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, but was also the companion of the show's owner, Joe Miller. Signed by the author. Buckskin Press, 2006. Soft cover. $14.95
Jaramillo, Mari-Luci. Madame Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter. A memoir of a woman who worked as a teacher, vice president of the University of new Mexico, ambassador to Honduras. Bilingual Press, 2002. Soft cover. $15.00
Jeffers, Jo. Ranch Wife. A roundup of the discoveries, dilemmas, and delights of a tenderfoot who became a Ranch Wife. Will illustrations by Ross Santee. 1st edition. Doubleday & Co., 1964. Dust jacket. $30.00
Jeffers, Jo. Ranch Wife. Forewrod by Katherine Jensen with a new postscript by the author. Tell the story of her life as wife and partner of a racher in the high country of northeastern Arizona. University of Arizona Press, 1993. Soft cover. $17.95
Jensen, Joan M. Promise to the Land: Essays on Rural Women. Collection of essays begins with personal accounts of the author's own experiences on a farm communue in the 1970s and those of her German immigrant grandmother in Wisconsin in the early 1900s. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Dust jacket. $27.50
SOLD Jensen, Joan M. & Darlis A. Miller. New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives. Reconstructs the history of New Mexico women from colonial times to the modern era. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 1986. Dust jacket. $35.00
Jepsen, Thomas C. Ma Kiley: The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher. The story of a Texas-born telegraph operator who worked as a "boomer" in the American West, Mexico and Canada in the early 1900s. 1st edition. Texas Western Press, 1997. Soft cover. $12.50
Johnson, E. Pauline. The Moccasin Maker. Introduction, annotation and bibliography by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. Johnson, amixed blood of Mohawk-English descent, pioneered the field of American Indian women's literature. University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Soft cover. $17.95
Johnson, Virginia Weisel, The Long, Long Trail: A Reminiscence. The author, by her own experiences tells of the dream that drew men to the mountains of the west. Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Dust jacket. $16.50
Jones-Eddy, Julie. Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950. The reality of the frontier is brought to light through the oral testimonies of women whose strength and perseverance were essential to the establishment of the West, using 47 interviews of women between the ages of 55 and 95. Twayne Publishers, 1992. Dust jacket, with mark on bottom edge and spine pushed in on bottom. $35.00
Jordan, Grace, Home Below Hell's Canyon. 1st edition. The author tells of the years that she spent on a sheep ranch in the Snake River canyon in middle Idaho. Previous owner's inscription front page. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1954. Black cloth. $35.00
SOLD Jordan, Teresa. Cowgirls: Women of the American West. Oral histories of 28 extraordinary women whose voices, together with photographs and historical overview, create a composite portrait. 1st edition. Anchor Press, 1982. Dust jacket. $50.00
Joy, Betty E. Hammer. Angela Hutchinson Hammer: Arizona's Pioneer Newspaperwoman. The lively story drawing upon Angela's own prodigious writing and correspondence, newspaper archives, and the recollections of family members which recounts the stories of her growing up in mining camps, teaching in territorial schools, and twenty-eight year career in publishing and printing. University of Arizona Press, 2005. Soft cover. $17.95
Kahlo, Frida. Frida Kahlo. Edited by Emma Dexter and Tanya Barson. Biography and catalog of her art works, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Tate Modern, 2005. Tate Publishing, 2005. Dust jacket. $55.00
Kalloch, Eunice & Ruth K. Hall, The First Ladies of New Mexico. 1st edition. The Lightning Tree, 1982. $35.00
Karras, Christy. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Utah Women. Profiles the lives of thirteen of the state's most important women from Emmeline B. Wells, Martha Hughes Cannon, Jodie and Anne Bassett - outlaw sisters, and Reva Beck Bosone. Globe Pequot, 2010. Soft cover. $14.98
Kasper, Shirl. Annie Oakley. A vivid and unforgettable portrait of this American original. 1st edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Dust jacket. $29.95
Katz, William Loren, Black Women of the West. 1st edition. As these women challenged bigotry, their frontier grit helped transform dismal, sparsely settled territories into thriving, populous states. Black and white illustrations throughout. Atheneum, 1995. $18.00
Kaufman, Polly Welts, National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History. A comprehensive study of women and their activities in preserving the National Parks. Updated edition. University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Soft cover. $22.95
Kazanjian, Howard and Chris Enss. None Wounded, None Missing, All Dead: The Story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer. New biography that tells the story of romance, life and adventure out West, the tragic end of the 7th Cavalry and the aftermath for the wives. TwoDot, 2011. Dust jacket. $21.95
Keen-Hansen, Audrey. Coyotes Always Howl at Midnight: Tales of a '70s Rancher's Wife. Story of an city bred woman living on a small Colorado ranch with her new husband. Trafford Publishing, 2006. Soft cover. $8.00
Kelly, Carla. Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army. Provides realistic portraits of women and their military men on isolated posts from North Dakota to the Mexican border. TCU Press, 2003. Soft cover. $17.95
Kennedy, Marguerite Wallace. My Home on the Range. Story of a woman rancher in Arizona. 1st edition. Little, Brown, 1951. Dust jacket. $42.50
Kennedy, Mary Jeanette. Tales of a Trader's Wife (Life on the Navajo Indian Reservation) 1913-1938. 1st edition. Presentation copy signed by the author. The author and her husband George Kennedy ran trading posts on the Navajo reservation. Includes experiences on the Hopi reservation. Valliant, 1965. Yellow cloth. $45.00
King, C. Richard. The Lady Cannoneer: Angelina Belle Peyton Ebery - Heroine of the Texas Archives War. Documented historical research about the woman who opposed Sam Houston and helped establish Austin as the capital of Texas. 1st edition. Eakin Press, 1981. Dust jacket. $25.00
King, Evelyn, Women on the Cattle Trail and in the Roundup. Essay with extensive bibliography. Limited to 550 copies. Brazos Corral of the Westerners, 1983. Blue wraps. $25.00
SOLD Kingsolver, Barbara, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, 2nd ed., 1996, 213 pages, $14.95
Kinzie, Juliette M. Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest. Lakeside Press, 1932. $45.00
Kirkpatrick, Jane. Aurora: An American Experience in Quilt, Community, and Craft. Tells the story of the quilts and people rediscovered in the Old Aurora Colony of Oregon's lush Willamette Valley. Illustrated with images of the people, their homesteads and their quilts. Waterbrook Press, 2008. Decorated casebound. $17.95
SOLD Kirkpatrick, Jane. Homestead: A Memoir of Modern Pioneers Pursing the Edge of Possibility. Story of life in the John Day River Valley of Oregon. Waterbrook Press, 2005. Soft cover. $13.99
Kirkpatrick, Linda. Somewhere in the West: "Texas Women Who Left a Legacy." Poems and legends. Edited by Janice Coggin. Cowboy Miner, 2002. Soft cover. $12.95
SOLD Klasner, Lily. My Girlhood Among Outlaws. Edited by Eve Ball. The recollections of experiences with Billy the Kid and other desperadoes in New Mexico. University of Arizona Press, 1988. Soft cover. $24.95
Klungness, Elizabeth J. Prisoners in Petticoats: The Yuma Territorial Prison and Its Women. 1st edition. Stories range from the humorous to poignant. Yuma County Historical Society, 1993. Soft cover. $9.95
SOLD Kovinick, Phil. The Woman Artist in the American West 1860-1960. An exhibition catalog shown in 1976 for the Muckenthaler Cultural Center. Black and white as well as color photos throughout of various womens' artwork. Northland Press, 1976. Orange cloth with black spine. $50.00
SOLD Kuhl, Nancy. Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts. Catalog of an exhibition at he Beinecke Library celebrating American women's contribution to art, literature, and the theater during the early 20th century. Yale University. 2003. Soft cover. $25.00
Kyte, Elinor C. Unbeatable Bessie: The Biography of Bessie Kidd Best. Life story of a pioneer Arizona educator. Author's presentation copy. Aegina Press, 1988. Soft cover. $10.00
SOLD Lackmann, Ron. Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film. The author compares the real women of the Old West to their portrayals in film, television, and other media. McFarland and Company, 1997. Hard cover. $45.00
Laegreid, Renee M. Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West. Examines the history, evolution and significance of the community-sponsored rodeo queen focusing on the town of Pendleton, Oregon. University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Dust jacket. $29.95
Lambert, Page. In Search of Kinship: Modern Pioneering on the Western Landscape. 1st edition. The author, in crafted writing about loss of a heritage and the quest to find it anew, speaks of ranching traditions and Native American beliefs that go back many generations and of the cycles of life to death so elemental to ranchers. Fulcrum, 1996. Dust jacket. $23.95
Lamphere, Louise. Weaving Women's Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family. The story of Eva Price, Carole Cadman and Valerie Darwin, three women who want to keep the Navajo culture alive. University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Soft cover. $24.95
SOLD Landes, Ruth. The Ojibwa Woman, Rpt. (1997), $13.00
Lane, Lydia Spencer. I Married a Soldier or Old Days in the Old Army. An account of a young army bride on the early southwestern frontier. Foreword by Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1st edition. Cut corner on front endsheet. Horn & Wallace, 1964. Tan cloth. $35.00
Lane, Lydia Spencer. I Married a Soldier. An account of a young army bride on the early southwestern frontier. Introduction by Darlis A. Miller. University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Soft cover. $19.95
Laune, Seigniora Russell. Sand in My Eyes. Illustrated by Paul Laune. Wind, sand, drought and heartbreak challenge the courage and will of "Nonie" Laune in her true story of frontier life on the Cherokee Strip. 1st printing of new edition. Northland Press, 1974. Dust jacket. $17.50.
Laurence, Mary Leefe. Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army 1878-1898. The young daughter of an English-born U.S. infantry officer on the post-Civil War frontier, Leefe had the childhood of an army nomad, accompanying the regiment from South Texas to the boundary with Canada. University of Nebraska, 1996. Dust jacket. $40.00
Leckie, Shirley A. Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian. The story of Oklahoma's pioneering historian in the historiography of the American Indian, the writing of regional history, and the development of national law and court cases involving indigenous people. University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Dust jacket. $29.95
LeCompte, Mary Lou. Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Pioneer Professional Athletes. 1st edition. LeCompte explores their lives, travails, and triumphs in this detailed study, explaining the cowgirls' struggle for inclusion. University of Illinois Press, 1993. Dust jacket. $22.50
SOLD Ledbetter, Suzann. Nellie Cashman: Prospector and Trailblazer, 1st ed., 1993, 83 pages, $12.50
SOLD Ledbetter, Suzann. Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women.
Chapters on such women as Molly Brown, Nellie Cashman, Lydia Pinkham and Silver Heels. Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2006. Dust jacket. $24.95
Lee, Mabel Barbee. Back in Cripple Creek. 1st edition. The story of her return to Cripple Creek after many years absent. Doubleday, 1968. Dust jacket. $30.00
Lee, Mabel Barbee. Cripple Creek Days. Foreword by Lowell Thomas. Story of a young girl's early days in Colorado. University of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $10.95
Legendary Ladies of Texas. 1st edition. Editied by Francis Edward Abernethy. A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them. E-Heart Press, 1981. $35.00
SOLD Leisch, Juanita. Who wore what? Womens Wear 1861-1865. Wonderful illustrations and photographs with accomapnying detailed text describe the variety of clothing styles worn by women in America during the Civil War. Thomas Publications, 1995. Purple boards. $29.95
SOLD Limon, Graciela. The Memories of Ana Calderon. A fictional memoir of a talented woman, born in tradition-bound rural Mexico, who comes to the U.S. and greater opportunity only to find that here too, society, family and religion seem to conspire to hold her back. Arte Publico Press, 1994. Soft cover. $12.95
Linderman, Frank B. Pretty-shield. The story of an elderly Crow medicine woman whose husband was with Custer. Native American Voices series. With insert describing the book. Time Life Books, 1993. Brown leatherette, embossed with gilt lettering. $20.00
SOLD Linhard, Tabea Alexa. Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. The first book-length study of the role women played in two of the most momentous revolutions of the twentieth century - inspired by the story of the Trece Rosas. University of Missouri Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $39.95
Lopez, Rhonda Lashley. Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country. An eloquent photo-documentary of eight women who chose to make ranching in the Texas Hill Country their way of life. University of Texas Press, 2011. $34.95
Louglin, Patricia. Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott. The story of a generation of women scholars who captured the history of American Indians in Oklahoma and the American West. University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Soft cover. $19.95
Luchetti, Cathy. Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier. Over 100 photographs make the time and place of the West come alive, telling the story of living in an awe-inspriing yet harsh landscape. W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. Dust jacket. $39.95
Luchetti, Cathy. Home on the Range: Culinary History of the American West. Frontier Recipes and Memories from the Pioneers of the Early West (1800-1915). Villard Books, 1993. Soft cover. $25.00
SOLD Luchetti, Cathy and Carol Olwell. Women of the West. An authentic view of life on the frontier, with extensive photographs. Library of the American West. Previous owner's name on front end sheet. Antelope Island Press, 1982. Dust jacket. $45.00
Luchetti, Cathy and Carol Olwell. Women of the West. An authentic view of life on the frontier, with extensive photographs. Library of the American West. Orion Books, 1982. Soft cover. $22.00
SOLD Luchetti, Cathy. I Do! Courtship, Love and Marriage on the American Frontier. A glimpse at America's romantic past through photographs, diaries and journals. 1st edition. Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996. Soft cover. $27.50
SOLD Lucia, Ellis. Klondike Kate: The Life and Legend of Kitty Rockwell, The Queen of the Yukon, 1st ed., (1962), $15.00
SOLD Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality. Classic autobiography of this patron of the arts in her first months in New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. Soft cover with minor wear. $21.95
SOLD Luhan, Mabel Dodge. European Experiences: Intimate Memories, 1st ed., (1935), $45.00
Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Intimate Memories: The Autobiography of Mabel Dodge Luhan. Edited by Lois Palken Rudnick. University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $45.00
SOLD Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Intimate Memories: Background. 1st ed. Harcourt Brace, 1933. Blue cloth, minor wear. $45.00
SOLD Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Movers and Shakers: Intimate Memories., 2nd edition. 1936. $45.00
Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Lorenzo in Taos. Story of D. H. Lawrence and Luhan. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. 1st English edition. Martin Secker, 1933. Orange cloth, with wear, spine edge loose. $100.00
SOLD Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Winter in Taos., 2nd, (1935) $65.00
Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Winter in Taos. Story of Luhan's time in Taos. Foreword by Frank Waters. Las Palomas de Taos, 1989. Soft cover, slight discoloration of cover. $17.50
SOLD Lurie, Nancy ed. Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder. The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1994. Soft cover. $15.95
MacKell, Jan. Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado 1860-1930. Foreword by Thomas J. Noel. A detailed overview of the business, focuing research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City and similar boomtown communities, using census data, Sanborn maps, city directories, property, marriage and court records to document and trace the movements of women over the4 course of their careers. University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Dust jacket. $27.95
MacKell, Jan. Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado 1860-1930. Foreword by Thomas J. Noel. A detailed overview of the business, focuing research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City and similar boomtown communities, using census data, Sanborn maps, city directories, property, marriage and court records to document and trace the movements of women over the4 course of their careers. University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Soft cover. $18.95
SOLD MacKell, Jan. Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains. Foreword by Thomas J. Noel. Stories of these interesting ladies, some information obtained by oral interviews. Illustrated. University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Dust jacket. $34.95
Maclay, Elise. The Art of Bev Doolittle. Bantam, 1990. Dust jacket. $60.00
Maclay, Elise. Bev Doolittle: New Magic. 1st edition. Bantam, 1995. $30.00
Madres del Verbo / Mothers of the Word: Early Spanish-American Women Writers, A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Nina M. Scott. University of New Mexico Press, 1999. $65.00
Magoffin, Susan Shelby, Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847. Edited by Stella M. Drumm with a foreword by Howard R. Lamar. The daily journal of a woman who traveled from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, traveling along the Rio Grande to El Paso and into Mexico. Yale University Press, 1962. Dust jacket. $40.00
Maier, Tom with Rebekah Farran Witter. Riata Ranch Cowboy Girls: Life Lessons Learned on the Back of a Horse. Photography by William Shepley and foreword by Larry Mahan. Many girls dream of the thrill and challenge of riding a horse in a world-class performance, this tells the story of the women women who are living that dream. Storey Books, 2001. Dust jacket. $35.00
Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women. Edited by Brbara Alice Mann, foreword by Winona LaDuke. A new way of looking at history. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Soft cover. $14.95
Mangum, Richard K. and Sherry G. Mangum. One Woman's West: Life of Mary - Russell Ferrell Colton. Story of a fascinating artist and philanthropoist, who with her husband created the Museum of Northern Arizona. 1st edition. Northland Press, 1997. Soft cover. $14.95
Mankiller, Wilma. Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women. Foreword by Vine Deloria Jr. Introduction by Gloria Steinem. A rare and intimate glimpse at the resilience and perseverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richness in their lives. Fulcrum Publishing, 2004. Soft cover. $16.95
SOLD Mankiller, Wilma and Michael Wallis. Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. An autobiography by the Principal Chief of the Cherokee National. 1st edition. St. Martin's Press, 1993. Dust jacket. $22.95
Mankowitz, Wolf Mazeppa, The Lives, Loves and Legends of Adah Issacs Menken, 1st ed., (1982) $25.00
Manual, Frances and Deborah Neff. Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams. A biography of a basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder who is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. 1st printing. University of Arizona Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $39.95
Maret, Elizabeth, Women of the Range: Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry. Foreword by Liz Carpenter. Describes the roles of women in the past, present and likely future, based on interviews, observation and data analysis. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 1993. Dust jacket. $32.00
Mark, Joan, A Stranger in her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians. Known as "the measuring woman" because of the land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher commanded respect from both friend and foe. University of Nebraska, 1988. Dust jacket. $40.00
Marriott, Alice and Carol K. Rachlin. Dance Around the Sun: The Life of Mary Little Bear Ikanih: Cheyenne. Biography of a southern Cheyenne craftswoman, a beadworker who kept her craft alive and taught others. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977. Dust jacket. $20.00
Marriott, Alice, The Ten Grandmothers. Story of a people whose way has been the Homeric way, marked by adventure, forays, and battle, by human situations that are as homely and imperishable as mankind itself. University of Oklahoma Press, 1951. Dust jacket with pieces missing on spine. $27.50
SOLD Marriott, Alice, Hell on Horses and Women. Drawings by Margaret Lefranc. Story of ranch life in Montana. Previous owner's name on front endsheet. 1st edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. Creme cloth. $45.00
SOLD Martin, Cy, Whiskey and Wild Women: An Amusing Account of the Saloons and Bawds of the Old West, 1st ed., (1974), $50.00
SOLD Marvine, Dee. The Lady Rode Bucking Horses: The Story of Fannie Sperry Steele, Woman of the West. A creative retelling of Fannie's life based on family archives, newspaper articles and personal interviews. Twodot, 2005. Soft cover. $14.95
SOLD Mary Hunter Austin. Pamphlet on Austin produced during her centennial. Contains a bibliography of her work. Independence, Calif., 1968. Wraps. $15.00
Matthews, Sallie Reynolds, Interwoven: Pioneer Chronicle. The story of life on the Lambshead Ranch on the Texas frontier. Memorial printing. Texas A&M University Press. Dust jacket. $24.95
Maxwell, Margaret E. A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Sharlot Hall. A biography of a remarkable Arizona woman. 1st edition. University of Arizona Press, 1982. Dust jacket. $45.00
Mazel, David, Mountaineering Women: Stories by Early Climbers., 1st edition. Texas A&M Press, 1994. Dust jacket. $27.50
McAndrews, Kristin M. Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West. Stories told by women who work as ranchers, trail guides, horse trainers and packers with their tales of humor. University of Nevada Press. 2006. Dust jacket. $39.95
McArthur, Judith N. and Harold L. Smith. Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience. Traces the history of Texas women through four eras, discussing how women worked for social reforms and labor and civil rights. University of Texas Press, 2010. Soft cover. $24.95
McAuliffe, Dennis, Jr. Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation. An informative, poignant story that reads like a mystery story. Council Oak Books, 1999. Soft cover. $13.95
McAuliffe, Dennis Jr., The Death of Sybil Bolton: An American History. 1st edition. Times Books, 1994. Dust jacket. $30.00
McBride, Bunny. Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris. 1st edition. Chronicles the extraordinary life of the twentieth-century performing artist who performed in places such as vaudeville and with the elite in Europe. University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Dust jacket. $34.95
McBride, Bunny, Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris.University of Oklahoma Press. Soft cover. $19.95
McBride, Bunny. Women of the Dawn. The story of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast American during the last four centuries. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $22.00
McClure, Charlotte S. Gertrude Atherton. Western Writers Series No. 23. Boise State University, 1976. Wraps. $4.50
McCroskey, Mona, Summer Sojourn to the Grand Canyon: The 1898 Diary of Stella Dysart, 1st ed., 1996. Soft cover. $9.95
McEuen, Melissa A. Seeing America: Women Photographers Between the Wars. 1st edition. The author examines the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Dust jacket. $45.00
McFeatters, Ann Carey. Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance. Biography sketches O'Connor's formative years and goes on to describe her career in law and politics. University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Soft cover. $21.95
*McGinty, Brian. The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival. Ridding the legendary tale of its anti-Indian bias and questioning the historic notion that the Oatmans' attackers were Apaches, McGinty explores the extent to which Mary Ann and Olive may have adapted to life among the Mohaves and charts Olive's years after her ordeal. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $29.95
*McGinty, Brian. The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival. Ridding the legendary tale of its anti-Indian bias and questioning the historic notion that the Oatmans' attackers were Apaches, McGinty explores the extent to which Mary Ann and Olive may have adapted to life among the Mohaves and charts Olive's years after her ordeal. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Soft cover. $19.95
McLaird, James D. Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend. Definitve biography of Martha Canary, meticulously reserched account of an alcholic prostitute who was traformed into a Wild West heroine, correcting previous depictions. 1st edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $29.95
McLeRoy, Sherrie S. Red River Women. Women of the Texas, who helped settle the frontier. Republic of Texas Press, 1996. Soft cover. $12.95
Megquier, Mary Jane. Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco 1849-1856. Second edition, edited & with an introduction by Polly Welts Kaufman. Introduction to the first edition by Robert Glass Cleland. University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Soft cover. $15.95
SOLD Meredith, Grace E. Girl Captives of the Cheyennes. New introduction by Peter Cozzens. The four young girls, aged five to seventeen, survived an attack in 1874 and were eventually set free. This tale is told by a niece of the one of the sisters. Frontier Classic Series. Stackpole, 2004. Soft cover. $16.95
Mifflin, Margot. The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman. Based on historical records, including the letters and diaries of Oatman's friends and relatives, this is the first book to examine her life from childhood in Illinois - including the massacre, her captivity and her return to white society. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Dust jacket. $24.95
Mifflin, Margot. The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman. Based on historical records, including the letters and diaries of Oatman's friends and relatives, this is the first book to examine her life from childhood in Illinois - including the massacre, her captivity and her return to white society. University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Soft cover. $17.95
Mihesuah, Devon Abbott. Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Environment, Activism. A look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous woman today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others. University of Nebraska, 2003. Soft cover. $16.95
Miller, Darlis A. Open Range: The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland. A captivating portrait of a western ranch woman and social activist who wrote No Life for a Lady. University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Dust jacket. $24.95
Miller, Kristie. Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman. The biography of a politician who became a key player in the New Deal, whose career spanned from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR. University of Arizona Press, 2004. Dust jacket. $24.95
Miller, Kristie. Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman. The biography of a politician who became a key player in the New Deal, whose career spanned from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR. University of Arizona Press, 2004. Soft cover. $17.95
SOLD Miller, Ronald Dean. Shady Ladies of the West. Previous owner's name on front endsheet. 1st edition. Westernlore Press, 1985. Dust jacket. $30.00
SOLD Miller, Ronald Dean. Shady Ladies of the West.Westernlore Press, 1985. Dust jacket. $18.95
Miller, Ruth. Out Trip to Mesa Verde - 1922. Persoanl account of a hiking trip rom Ouray to Mesa Verde and Lake City taken by four women. Buckskin Publishing Co., 1988. Tan decorated soft cover. $12.50
Miller, Susan Cummins, ed. A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922. A diverse and comprehensive anthology of thirty-four writers with a brief biographical and historical preface that contextualizes the engaging work of each woman. University of Utah Press, 2000. Soft cover. $21.95
Miller, Teresa. Means of Transit: A Slightly Embellished Memoir. A unique voice in the world of American letters by a woman who grew up in Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Dust jacket. $24.95
Mills, Betty J. Amanda Goes West: A Journal of Fashion History Through Paper Doll, 1983, $6.95
Mills, Betty J. Amanda's Home on the Range: A Journal of Fashion History Through Paper Dolls. vol. 3, (1984), $6.95
SOLD Mills, Betty J. Calico Chronicle: Texas Women and their Fashions 1830-1910. Rpt, (1985), $25.95
Mitchell, Rose. Tall Woman: The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977. Edited by Charlotte J. Frisbie. The story of a Navajo woman raised in a family of foragers and herders, forbidden to go to school, she learned traditional skills and knowledge from her elders, growing up to be a well-known weaver and an expert on the uses of traditional plants as food and medicine. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $65.00
Mock, Shirley Boteler. Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico. A rare and vivid picture of these women and their contributions, examining the culture born of African roots and shaped by Native American and Mexican influences. 1st edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Dust jacket. $34.95
Monahan, Sherry. The Wicked West: Boozers, Cruisers, Gamblers, and More. Sex, sin and saloons come together with a look at the wick, wild and wonderful days of the old West. Rio Nuevo, 2005. Soft cover. $15.95
Montana, Sybil. Sweethearts of the Notorious Outlaws. Stories of Zee James, Pearl Younger, Belle Starr, Urilla Sutherland, wife of Wyatt Earp, and Rose of the Cimarron. Signed by the author. Sybil Montana, 2000. Soft cover. $15.00
SOLD Moran, Mary Nimmo. Prints of Nature: Poetic Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran. Exhibit catalog, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, September 7 - December 2, 1984. Soft cover. $5.00
Morris, Juddi, Harvey Girls: The Women who Civilized the West. 1st edition. Story of the young women who did more than serve food in Fred Harvey's chain of quality restaurants along the Santa Fe Railroad. Black and white illustrations throughout. Walker and Company, 1994. Dust jacket. $16.85
Morrison, Helen. Okanogan to Seattle in 1918. Pages from an early automobile trip written by a fifteen year girl. Ye Galleon Press, 1972. Wraps. $3.00
Motto, Sytha, No Banners Waving, 1st edition. Sytha re-creates the scene from 1846, when New Mexico was ceded to the United States, and peoples it with women whose names are still legend such as Susan Magoffin, the first white woman to cross the plains over the Santa Fe Trail and other women who followed. Vantage Press, 1966. $40.00
Moynahan, Jay. Culinary Delights from the Red Lights: Receipes from the Bordellos and Backstreets of the Frontier West. A collection of frontier recipes that might have been used by the sportin' women. Signed by the author. Chickadee Publishing, 1999. Sprial bound. $10.95
Moynaham, Jay, comp. Fifty Years of Prostitute Photos 1870 - 1920. 3 volumes of captioned photographs. Chickadee Publishing, 2004-2005. Soft cover. $50.00
Moynahan, Jay. Just Call Me Kate: Thye Stories of Four Kates of Negotiable Virtue. Chapters on Big Nose Kate, Kate Dulaney, Cattle Kate and Kate from Spokane. Chickadee Publishing, 2005. Soft cover. $8.95
Moynahan, Jay. Photographs of Red Light Ladies 1865-1920. Includes images from Arizona and Texas. Numbered and limited edition of 375 copies, signed by the author. Chickadee Publishing, 2005. Brown cloth. $27.95
Moynahan, Jay. Pioneer Prostitutes: Soiled Angels on the American Frontier. Chapters on intriguing women, including Mattie Earp. Chickadee Publishing, 1994. Soft cover. $8.95
SOLD Moynahan, Jay. The Prairie Pioneer Prostitutes' Own Cookbook. Recipes and history - a delicious combination. Chickadee Publishing, 2004. Spiral Bound. $8.95
Moynahan, Jay. Prostitute Dictionary of the Old West. Revised edition of Talkin' About Sportin' Women. Terms found in use in the American West from 1850 to 1920. Chickadee Publishing, 2004. Laminated and spiral bound. $8.95
Moynahan, Jay. Remedies from the Red Lights: Cures, Treatments and Medicines from the Sportin' Ladies of the Frontier West. Different cures from stomach aches to burns to headache, health juices, ulcers and wrinkle control. Signed by the author. Chickadee Publishing, 2000. Spiral bound. $10.95
Moynahan, Jay. Soiled Doves Civil War Cookbook. Learn the stories of the ladies and what they ate. Signed by the author. Chickadee Publishing, 2004. Spiral Bound. $10.95
Moynahan, Jay. Soiled Doves, Sportin' Women and Other Fallen Flowers: Prostitution on the American Frontier. Includes chapters on Sadie Orchard, the brothels and bordellos and the legend of the Poker Bride. Chickadee Publishing, 2005. Green cloth. $24.95
Moynihan, Ruth B., Armitage, Susan, So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. Letters, diaries, and memoirs offer glimpses of women's courage, physical strength, and independence that were the equal of any man's, even as they also reveal the failures, weaknesses, and tragedies that beset both sexes during the settlement process. University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Soft cover. $13.95
Moynihan, Ruth B., Susan Armitage, and Christiane Fischer Dichamp, ed. So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. Letters, diaries, and memoirs offer glimpses of women's courage, physical strength, and independence that were the equal of any man's, even as they also reveal the failures, weaknesses, and tragedies that beset both sexes during the settlement process. 2d edition. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Soft cover. $19.95
Mulford, Karen Surina. Trailblazers: Twenty Amazing Western Women. From Sacagawea to Dorothea Lange to Sandra Day O'Connor, these remarkable women followed their dreams, challenged convention, and created new opportunities for American women, yesterday and today. Northland Publishing, 2001. Soft cover. $14.95
Myres, Sandra L., Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915. Frontier women gain a voice as Myres reinterprets the lives and impressions of a variety of women, from entrepreneurs and suffrage workers to farmer wives and colorful characters like Calamity Jane and Poker Alice. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 1982. Dust jacket. $45.00
Myres, Sandra L., Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915. Frontier women gain a voice as Myres reinterprets the lives and impressions of a variety of women, from entrepreneurs and suffrage workers to farmer wives and colorful characters like Calamity Jane and Poker Alice. University of New Mexico Press. Soft cover. $21.95
Nash, Ruth Morey. The Little Emigrant. Biography of a young emigrant from Norway who grew up in the Dakota Territory. Privately printed. 1970. Dust jacket. $20.00
SOLD Neatherlin, May, House of the Rancher, 1st ed., 1955, 134 pages, $25.00
Neihardt, Hilda Martinsen. The Broidered Garment: The Love Story of Mona Martinsend and John G. Neihardt. Story of the artist and her romance with the son an American pioneer family on the great Plains. University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Dust jacket. $29.95
SOLD Niederman, Sharon, A Quilt of Words: Women's Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest, 1860-1960. 1st edition. Johnson, 1988. Dust jacket. $35.00
Niethammer, Carolyn. Daughters of the Earth: Lives and Legends of American Indian Women. At a time when many contemporary American women are seeking alternatives to a life-style and role they have outgrown, this book offers us an absorbing and illuminating legacy of dignity and purpose. Touchstone, 1996. Soft cover. $18.00
Niethammer, Carolyn. I'll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. The Navajo Nation has called Wauneka "Our Legendary Mother." This book draws upon interviews with family and friends, speeches and correspondence to offer an arresting and readable portrait of this complex woman. University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $29.95
SOLD Noble, Marguerite. Filaree: A Novel of an American Woman. Moving story of pioneer life in Arizona. Author's signed presentation copy. Random House, 1973. Dust jacket. $25.00
Noble, Marguerite. Filaree: A Novel of an American Woman. Moving story of pioneer life in Arizona. University of New Mexico Press. Soft cover. $16.95
Nunez, Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw. Spirit Woman: The Diaries and Paintings of Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nunez. Edited by Stan Steiner. Story of an American Native American who was a feminist, lecturer on Indian rights, spiritualist and self-taught artist before her death in 1972 at the age of 84. 1st edition. Harper & Row, 1980. Dust jacket. $17.50
Nunnery, Frances Minerva. A Woman of the Century: Frances Minerva Nunnery 1898-1997. Her story in her own memorable voice as told to Cecil Dawkins. Foreword by Max Evans. The story of a remarkable New Mexico rancher. University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $19.95
O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer. Heart of the Trail: The Stories of Eight Wagon Train Women. Twodot, 1997. Soft cover. $15.00
O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer. Outlasting the Trail: The Story of a Woman's Journey West. Historical fiction, based on the dramatic events of a real family's overland crossing to California. TwoDot, 2005. Soft cover. $14.95
O'Connell, Jay. Train Robber's Daughter: The Melodramatic Life of Eva Evans, 1876-1970. The story of an outlaw's daughter and her own life and romance with bandit partner John Sontag. Raven River Press, 2008. Soft cover. $18.95
Of Women and Horses: More Expressions of the Magical Bond. A new Collection of Essays by Horsewomen. Commentary by GaWaNi Pony Boy, illustrations by various artists, photographs by Mark J. Barrett. These women describe their relationship with their horses. Bow Tie Press, 2005. Dust jacket, oversize. $39.95
Olden, Sarah Emilia. Little Slants at Western Life: A Note Book of Travel and Reflection. Chapters on travel through New Mexico and Utah with many stories about Native Americans. 1st edition. Harold Vinal, Ltd., 1927. Red cloth. $30.00
Osburn, Katherine M.B. Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934. 1st edition. Discusses the people, women and public leadership, women and economics, homemaking, and sex and marriage. University of New Mexico, 1998. $45.00
Osselaer, Heidi J. Winning their Place: Arizona Women in Politics 1883-1950. Foreword by Gov. Janet Napolitano. The landmark book chronicles the participation of Arizona women in the state's early politics, incorporating impressive original research, from the territorial years to the period after World War II. University of Arizona Press, 2009. Dust jacket. $45.00
Otero, Nina. Old Spain in Our Southwest. Illustrated by Aileen Nusbaum. Otero, a descendant of one of the old Spanish families, relates the customs, stories, and legends the old people told her in New Mexico. Harcourt Brace, 1936. Blue cloth with discolored spine. $25.00
SOLD Paine, Swift, Eilley Orrum: Queen of the Comstock. 1st edition. Story of this Scootish born Native and her exciting life ending up wealthy thanks to the Comstock Silver Lode. Pacific Books, 1949, Dust jacket. $45.00
Parsons, Elsie Clews, ed., Pueblo Mothers and Children: Essays by Elsie Clews Parsons 1915-1924. 1st ed., (1991), $14.95
SOLD Peavy, Linda, Pioneer Women: The Lives of the Women on the Frontier. 1st edition. This book provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Illustrated with a fascinating collection of seldom-seen photographs. Smithmark, 1996. Dust jacket. $35.00
Peavy, Linda, Pioneer Women: The Lives of the Women on the Frontier. University of Oklahoma Press. Soft cover oversize. $24.95
Peavy, Linda & Ursula Smith. Frontier Children. Foreword by Elliott West. Enriched by over 200 vintage photographs, this book is a visual and verbal montage of childhood in the nineteenth-century West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $24.95
Peavy, Linda and Ursula Smith. Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World. The story of this women's basketball team from Montana who took their game to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Dust jacket. $29.95
SOLD Peavy, Linda and Ursula Smith. Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier. Foreword by John Mack Faragher. Authors sketch fascinating portraits of six frontier marriages. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Soft cover. $24.95
Pender, Rose, A Lady's Experience in the Wild West in 1883. Foreword by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Reprint of the 1888 edition. Story of the author's travels through the American West touring Texas, California, Utah, and Wyoming. University of Nebraska Press, 1976. Dust jacket. $25.00
Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. University of Nebraska, 1999. Soft cover. $17.95
Perry, George Sessions, My Granny Van: The Running Battle of Rockdale Texas. 1st edition. A living, breathing portrait of a woman of tremendous natural dignity, and an intimate glimpse into the life of George Perry. Whittlesey House, 1949. Dust jacket has small tears. $12.50
Perry, Nellie M. Woman of the Plains: The Journal & Stories of Nellie M. Perry. Edited by Sandra Gail Teichmann. The story of life on te High Plains. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Dust jacket. $24.95
Pesantubbee, Michelene E. Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Class of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast. The culmination of efforts to understand culture change and the roles of the Choctaw women of Oklahoma. University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $39.95
Peterson, Nancy M. Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path. The story of twelve women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian moth4ers, but forced into the world of their water fathers, fought to find their indentities in a rapidly changing world. Caxton Press, 2006. Soft cover. $16.95
Peterson, Susan. Pottery by American Indian Women: The Legacy of Generations. A lavish and informative examination of how American Indian women have used pottery to express themselves. Color illustrations. National Museum of Women in the Arts Exhibition. Abbeville Press, 1997. Dust jacket. $55.00
Petrik, Paula. No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier. A community study as well as a collective biography and statistical portrait of women residents of a mining town. Montana Historical Society Press, 1987. Dust jacket. $19.95
SOLD Phillips, Catherine Coffin. Jessie Benton Fremont: A Woman Who Made History. Introduction by Christine Bold. Written by a woman whose family knew Jessie Fremont during her last years and had access to private letters. University of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $19.95
Phipps, Sheila R. Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee. Grounded in impressive primary research and an extensive secondary literature, this book is more than just a biography. - It addresses important questions about women's power and Confederate identity. 1st printing. Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Dust jacket. $39.95
SOLD Pickrell, Annie Doom, Pioneer Women in Texas, 1991, $29.95
Pierce, PJ. "Let Me Tell You What I've Learned": Texas Wisewomen Speak. 1st edition. Foreword by Liz Carpenter. In this collection of interviews conducted by Pierce, twenty-five Texas women ranging in age from 53 to 93 share their wisdom they've acquired through living unconventional lives. Texas Press, 2002. Soft cover. $19.95
SOLD Poe, Sophie A. Buckboard Days. An engaging biography of John William and Sophie Poe's life on the Texas and New Mexico frontier. University of New Mexico Press, 1981. Dust jacket. $37.50
Poling-Kempes, Lesley. Far From Home: West by Rail with the Harvey Girls. Re-creation of paper dolls with a history of the Harvey Girls, showing their uniforms and dress of the day. Includes a male figure. Illustrations by Lynette C. Ross. Texas Tech University Press, 1994. Wraps, oversize. $7.95
Poling-Kempes, Lesley. The Golden Era 1922-1927: West by Rail with the Harvey Girls. Re-creation of paper dolls with a history of the Harvey Girls, showing their uniforms and dress of the day. Area includes from the mid-West thru New Mexico Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Includes a male figure. Illustrations by Lynette C. Ross. Texas Tech University Press, 1997. Wraps, oversize. $30.00
SOLD Poling-Kempes, Lesley. Harvey Girls: Women who Opened the West. 1st edition. Paragon House. 1991. Dust jacket. $45.00
SOLD Poling-Kempes, Lesley. Harvey Girls: Women who Opened the West. Marlow & Co, 1991. Soft cover with minor wear. $15.00
Pollack, Eileen. Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull. The story of the Indian rights advocate. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $29.95
Poniatowska, Elena. Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution. Photographic essay and commentary on the role of women during the Mexican Revolution. 1st edition. Cinco Puntos Press, 2006. Soft cover. $12.95
Poolman, Jeremy. A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer. The story recreates key scenes in Libbie's life - meeting the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Tsar Alexander III, and Henry James - as well as details the career of the general himself. Bloomsbury, 2002. Dust jacket. $24.95
Porter, Katherine Anne. From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter. Edited by Mark Busby & Dick Heaberlin. TCU Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $26.50
Portraits of Women in the American West. Edited by Dee Garceau-Hagen. Vivid biographical essays about women from the West during the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries. Routledge, 2005. Soft cover. $29.95
Prescott, Cynthia Culver. Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier. An exploration of the shifting gender roles and ideologies that counteless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon's Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. University of Arizona Press, 2007. Dust jacket. $49.95
Radke-Moss, Andrea. Bright Epoch: Women & Coeducation in the American West. The story of female students' early mixed-gender encounters at four institutions: Iowa Agricultural College, the University of Nebraska, Oregon Agricultural College and Utah State Agricultural College. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Dust jacket. $45.00
SOLD Rak, Mary Kidder. Mountain Cattle. 1st ed., 1936. $55.00
Rak, Mary Kidder. A Cowman's Wife. Story of a ranch woman in early 20th century Arizona. Illustrated by Charles Owens. Houghton Mifflin, 1934. Dust jacket wittttt wear on edges. $85.00
Rak, Mary Kidder. A Cowman's Wife. Story of a ranch woman in early 20th century Arizona. Illustrated by Charles Owens. Bookplate of Joe Entz (special with bucking horse) on acknowledgment page. Houghton Mifflin, 1934. Tan cloth. $40.00
Rak, Mary Kidder. A Cowman's Wife. Story of a ranch woman in early 20th century Arizona. With an introductionb y Sandra L. Myres. Texas State Historical Association, 1993. Soft cover. $22.00
Randall, Ruth Painter. I Jessie: A Biography of the Girl Who Married John Charles Fremont Famous Explorer of the West. Jessie's abundant writings form the basis for this true story. 1st edition. Little Brown & Co,. 1963. Dust jacket with wear at the bottom corner and top spine. $25.00
SOLD Rascoe, Burton, Belle Starr: Bandit Queen, 1st ed., 1941, 340 pages, $55.00
Rascoe, Burton. Belle Starr "The Bandit Queen." Introduction by Glenda Riley. The true story of the romantic and exciting career of the daring and glamorous lady . . . University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Soft cover. $15.00
Rawhide & Lace: Courtship in the West. Winter 95-96 Issue 5. For Readers & Writers of Western Fiction. Wraps. $6.00
Rawhide & Lace: Cowboys & Cowgirls. Fall 1996 Issue 7. For Readers & Writers of Western Fiction. Wraps. $6.00
Ray, Grace Ernestine. Wily Women of the West. Stories about the women whose names live on in Western lore. Naylor, 1972. Dust jacket. $25.00
Raymond, Sarah & Dr. Waid Howard. Overland Days to Montana in 1865: The Diary of S. Raymond & Journal of Dr. W. Howard. 1st ed. Edited by Raymond & Mary Settle, 1971, 232 pages, $50.00
Read, June Willson. Frontier Madam: The Life of Dell Burke, Lady of Lusk. Biography of this Wyoming madam who ran her business for sixty years. TwoDot, 2008. Soft cover. $12.95
Rebolledo, Tey Diana. The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and other Guerrilleras: Essays on Chicana / Latina Literature and Criticism. Mexican - American women authors. University of Texas Press, 2005. Blue paper on boards with black tape spine.$50.00
Red Shirt, Delphine. Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter. The unforgettable story of several generations of Lakota women. University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Dust jacket. $26.95
Red Shirt, Delphine. Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter. The unforgettable story of several generations of Lakota women. University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Soft cover. $14.95
Reed, Maureen. A Woman's Place: Women Writing New Mexico. A collective biography of six remarkable twentieth-century New Mexicans that sheds light on the distinct role of women in shaping American multiculturalism. The women are Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Cleofas Jaramillo, Fabiola Cabeza, Kay Bennett and Pabilita Velarde. University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Soft cover. $21.95
Reid, Agnes Just. Letters of Long Ago. Introduction by Brigham D. Madsen. Family letters written on the Idaho frontier. Revised edition. University of Utah Library, Tanner Trust Fund, 1973. Dust jacket. $16.50
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North American. 1st edition. This anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. Edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird. W.W. Norton, 1997. Dust jacket. $27.50
Rhodehamel, Josephine DeWitt, & Raymund Francis Wood, Ina Coolbrith: Librarian and Laureate of California. 1st edition. A clear vivid account of a brilliant woman who helped to give California a significant dimension in literary history. Previous owner's name inscribed front end sheet. Brigham Young University Press, 1973. Dust jacket. $30.00
SOLD Rice, Inez, Valley over the Hill, 1st ed., 1959. $35.00
Richardson, Rev.Walter R. In Memoriam: Mrs. Mary A. Maverick." Funeral oration for one of Texas' early pioneer women in 1898 at St. Mark's Church, San Antonio. Knickerbocker Press. Wraps. $20.00
Riley, Glenda & Richard W. Etulain, By Grit & Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West. Fulcrum, 1997. Soft cover. $17.95
Riley, Glenda. Confronting Race: Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1815-1915. Women who migrated West carried deeply ingrained images and preconceptions of themselves and racially based ideas of the non-white groups they encouraged. Research is based on the diaries and journals of trail women, settlers, army wives and missionaries. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Dust jacket. $39.95
Riley, Glenda. The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley. The first interpretive biography of Oakley. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Dust jacket. $35.00
Riley, Glenda. Taking Land - Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940. A discussion of the historical experiences of these two frontiers. University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Soft cover. $22.95
Riley, Glenda & Richard W. Etulain, eds. Wild Women of the Old West. This volume presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine notorious women from the days of boisterous frontier saloons and high-noon showdowns. Meet Baby Doe Tabor, Sadie Orchard, Calamity Jame, Emily D. West (Morgan) and others. Fulcrum Publishing, 2003. Soft cover. $17.95
Riley, Glenda. Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915. 1st edition. Riley substantially revises the conventional melodramtic picture of pioneer women cowering when confronted with Indians. Women were required to be independent and hardy as they learned to adapt. University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Dust jacket. $50.00
Riley, Glenda. Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915. Riley substantially revises the conventional melodramtic picture of pioneer women cowering when confronted with Indians. Women were required to be independent and hardy as they learned to adapt. University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Soft cover. $19.95
Riley, Glenda. Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild West", University of Nebraska Press, (1999), $60.00
Riley, Marilyn Griggs. High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women. Foreword by Thomas J. Noel. Stories of six women who impacted Denver and Colorado between 1900 and 1970, including Louise Sneed Hill, Justina L. Ford, Helen Gilmer Bonfils, Caroline Bancroft and Mary Coyle Chase. Johnson Books, 2006. Soft cover. $16.00
Rister, Carl Coke. Comanche Bondage: Dr. John Carles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in Southern Texas of the 1830's with an annotated reprint of Sarah Ann Horn's Narrative of her captivity among the Comanches her ransom by traders in New Mexico and return via the Santa Fe Trail. 1st edition. Arthur H. Clark, 1955. Blue cloth. $150.00
Rister, Carl Coke. Comanche Bondage. Introduction to the Bison edition by Don Worcester. Story of the homesteaders in Dolores Texas in the 1830s with the 1839 narrative of Sarah Ann Horne annotated by Rister. University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Soft cover. $17.95
SOLD Roach, Joyce Gibson. Cowgirls. Limited series collector's edition. Number 317 of 500 copies. Signed by the author. Cordovan Corporation, 1977. Dust jacket. $35.00
Roach, Joyce Gibson. The Cowgirls. Preface by C. L. Sonnichsen and afterword by Elmer Kelton. An important chapter in the history and folklore of the West is how women on the cattle frontier took their place as equal partners with men. University of North Texas. Soft cover. $19.95
Roberts, Annie Gibson. A Summer on the Plains with Custer's 7th Cavalry: The 1870 of Annie Gibson Roberts. Edited by Brian C. Pohanka. Diary of a young woman who spent a summer with the military and the wives, including a buffalo hunt. She later married an officer who died with Custer. Schroeder Publications, 2004. Casebound.$24.95
Robertson, Janet, Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies. Stories of some three dozen women who from the 1850s to the 1980s ventured into the mountains. University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Dust jacket. $35.00
Robinson, Forrest G., ed. The New Western History: The Territory Ahead. University of Arizona Press, 1997. $40.00
Robinson, W. W. Tarnished Angels: Paradisiacal Turpitude in Los Angeles Revealed. History of early prostitution in Los Angeles. Printed for members of the Roxburghe Club and the Zamorano Club, September 1964. Ward Ritchie Press. Minature, red wraps. $50.00
Rochlin, Harriet. On Her Way Home. The third novel in the acclaimed Desert Dwellers Trilogy, a story of hard times, frazzled family ties, and tin horn justice in the Arizona Territory. 1st edition. Fifthian Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $21.95
Roe, Frances M. A. Army Letters From an Officer's Wife 1871-1888. Introduction by Sandra Myers. Life is detailed on the Western frontier. Illustrated by I. W. Tabes from contemporary photographs. Reprinted from the 1909 1st edition. University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Blue Cloth. $45.00
Roe, Frances M. A. Army Letters From an Officer's Wife 1871-1888. Introduction by Sandra Myers. Life is detailed on the Western frontier. Illustrated by I. W. Tabes from contemporary photographs. Reprinted from the 1909 1st edition. University of Nebraska Press, 1981. Soft cover. $24.95
Rogers, Lisa Waller. Get Along, Little Dogies: The Chisholm Trail Diary of Hallie Lou Wells South Texas, 1878. Adventures to engage any middle reader, girl or boy. Texas Tech University Press, 2001. Pictorial case bound. $14.50
Roosevelt, Eleanor. A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway 1904 - 1953. Edited by Kristie Miller and Robert H. mcGinnis, preface by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Chronicles a fifty year friendship dating back to their school days - with astute analysis and insightful commentary by the editors. Arizona Historical Society, 2009. Dust jacket. $34.95
SOLD Root, Robert. Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now. Interweaves an overview of Isabella Bird's travels and work and the author's own travels to produce a uniquely informative and entertaining narrative. University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Soft cover. $19.95
Rose, Cynthia. Lottie Deno: Gambling Queen of Hearts. Story of a Texas gambler. 1st edition. Clear Light Publishers, 1994. Dust jacket. $22.95
Ross, Ishbel. The General's Wife: The Life of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant. The first biography of a woman strangely neglected, yet who had a profound impact on American history. 2d printing. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1959. Dust jacket. $20.00
Ross, Ishbel. Rebel Rose: Life of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy. An astonishing woman, a brilliant agent for the South and a famous Washington hostell, she was adept at political intrigue, active in espionage and often involved in scandal. 1st edition. Harper & Brothers, 1954. Dust jacket. $35.00
SOLD Ross, Margaret Wheeler. History of the Arizona Federation of Women's Clubs and its Forerunners. 1944. $25.00
SOLD Rothschild, Mary Logan and Pamela Claire Hronek. Doing What the Day Brought: Oral History of Arizona Women. Drawn from interviews with twenty-nine individuals, examines the everyday lives of women from the late nineteenth century to the present day. University of Arizona Press, 1992. Soft cover. $19.95
Royce, Sarah. Across the Plains: Sarah Royce's Western Narrative. Edited by Jennifer Dawes Adkison. An account of Royce and her family leaving Iowa in 1849 for the California golf fields from her diary. Reveals her fear, discomfort, anxiety and excitement of the trip across the plains. University of Arizona Press, 2009. Soft cover. $19.95
Ruby, Robert H. and John A. Brown. Esther Ross: Stillaguamish Champion. Foreword by LaDonna Harris. The story of a woman who waged a passionate and persistent and ultimately successful campaign to achieve federal recognition for this Stillaguamished tribe. 1st Edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $29.95
Rudner, Ruth, Greetings from Wisdom, Montana, 1st ed., 1989, 164 pages, $15.95
Ruff, Ann and Gail Drago. Outlaws in Petticoats and Other Notorious Texas Women. Fascinating stories about Bonnie Parker, Emily Morgan, Belle Starr, Lizzie Johnson Williams and others. Republic of Texas Press, 1995. Soft cover. $12.95
Rudnick, Lois Palken, Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds. Fascinating biography reveals a complex and talented woman who tried to influence the course of American history. University of New Mexico Press. Soft cover. $22.95
Rudnick, Lois Palken, Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture. University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Soft cover. $18.95
Russell, Marian. Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell along the Santa Fe Trail. Foreword by Marc Simmons. Illustrated facsimile edition with new photographs, and a new map. University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Soft cover. $14.95
Rutter, Michael. Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West. Stories of serial killers, western legends, women, gallows, and lynch mobs, outlaw molls, just bad women. Farcountry, 2008. Soft cover. $14.95
Rutter, Michael. Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West. Opens a window on the lives of prostitutes, why they chose this career, who they worked for and what their lives were like. Farcountry Press, 2005. Soft cover. $14.95
Rutter, Michael. Wild Bunch Women. Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited women who traveled with Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch gang. Twodot, Globe Pequot Press, 2003. Soft cover. $10.95
Ryan, Marah Ellis. The House of the Dawn. Indian novel set in Arizona. Illustrated and decorated by Hanson Booth. 1st edition. A. C. McClurg, 1914. $20.00
St. Pierre, Mark. Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story. 1st edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Dust jacket. $25.00
St. Pierre, Mark. Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story. Biography of her life on the Cheyenne River Sioux Resevation in South Dakota who later became North American Indian Woman of the Year in 1983. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Soft cover. $18.95
SOLD Salas, Elizabeth, Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History, 1st ed., (1990), $25.00
SOLD Sandwich, Brian. The Great Western: Legendary Lady of the Southwest. The story of Sarah Bowman, who was a camp-follwer during the Mexican War and then settled in Yuma. 1st edition. Texas Western Press, 1991. Soft cover. $25.00
Sargent, Theodore D. The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman. The story of a woman who traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota - witnessing many monumental events, including the inception of the Ghost Dance religion and the results of the Wounded Knee massacre. She later married Charles Eastman, a Dakota doctor. University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $29.95
SOLD Savage, Candace, Cowgirls, 1st ed., (1996), $22.95
SOLD Scadron, Arlene, On Their Own: Widows and Widowhood in the American Southwest 1848-1939, 1st edition. Smoothly combines anthropology, history, sociology, law, and women's studies into a useful and insightful study of one of the major questions confronting American women today. University of Illinois, 1988. $29.95
Schackel, Sandra K., ed. Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century. Sixteen essays reprinted in this anthology address the ways in which western women have experienced the twentieth century. Articles by Virginia Scharff, Valerie Matsumoto, Nora Hamilton and others. University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Soft cover. $23.95
Schackel, Sandra K. Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West. Stories of a diverse group of women, white and Hispanic, ranch and poor, young and old, provide a new perspective of women and the land. University Press of Kansas, 2011. Dust jacket. $24.95
Scharff, Virginia and Carolyn Brucken. Home Lands: How Women Made the West. This book was published in conjuncgtion with the exhibition from 2010 to 2011. Explores the ways in which women encounered and transformed three archetypal Western landscapes: The Rio Arriba reigion of New Mexico, the front range of Colorado and the Puget Sound waterscape. Illusrated. Autry National Center of the West and the University of California Press, 2010. Soft cover, stiff wraps, oversize. $26.95
Schlissel, Lillian, Byrd Gibbens & Elizabeth Hampsten, Far From Home: Families of the Western Journey. Using letters and diaries, the sagas of three separate families who ventured West from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century are told. Schocken Books, 1989. Dust jacket. $19.95
Schlissel, Lillian, ed. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. Preface by Carl N. Degler. A unique first-hand portrait of the role and perception of women in the great migration to the American frontier. Schocken Books, 1982. Dust jacket. $35.00
Schlissel, Lillian, ed. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. Preface by Carl N. Degler. A unique first-hand portrait of the role and perception of women in the great migration to the American frontier. Schocken Books, 1982. Soft cover. $14.95
SOLD Schloff, Linda Mack. "And Prairie Dogs weren't Kosher:" Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855. Lavishly illustrated, combining historical insight with the diverse voices of the immigrants. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996. Soft cover. $14.95
Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Using government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some framiliar, such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, Schultz explores the lives of the women during the war and after. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Dust jacket. $34.95
Scott, Lynn H. Covered Wagon and Other Adventures. Foreword by Charles Kuralt. Reminiscences of growing up in the pre-1910 West. University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Dust jacket. $12.95
SOLD Seagraves, Anne. Daughters of the West, 1st edition. This action-packed book captures the feminine side of the West and tells of colorful ladies who earned the respect of their male couterparts. Wessane, 1996. Soft cover. $11.95
SOLD Seagraves, Anne. High-Spirited Women of the West, 1st edition. Profiles of ten courageous women who helped shape history are told in this inspiring book. Wessane, 1992. Soft cover. $11.95
Seagraves, Anne. Roses of the West. From escaping the bonds of slavery to opening up the fields of medicine, politics, education and even cattle-ranching, these real life heroins prepared the way for those who followed. Wesanne Publications, 2002. Soft cover. $12.95
Seagraves, Anne. Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West. Signed by the author. Wesanne Publications, 1994. Soft cover. $12.95
Seagraves, Anne. Women of the Sierra. Book about women achievers of the mid-1800s through the turn-of-the-century. Each women left her imprint in the Sierra and all were important. Wesanne, 1992. Soft cover. $11.95
Seagraves, Anne. Women Who Charmed the West. 1st edition. The author successfully re-opens the lives of these remarkable ladies of the theater, who not only entertained the audiences of the West, they charmed them.b Wesanne, 1991. Soft cover $11.95
Seargeant, Helen H. House by the Buckeye Road. A charming story of life in the Arizona farming community of Buckeye in the 1910s. Naylor Community, 1960. Dust jacket. $40.00
Secrest, Clark. Hell's Belles: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver with a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman. Revised edition. Soundly researched, well-documented and entertaining journey to the early days of Denver. University Press of Colorado, 2002. Soft cover. $34.95
SOLD Segale, Sister Blandina, At the End of the Santa Fe Trail. The story of a Sister of Charity from 1872 to 1892 in Colorado. Previous owner's signature on front endsheet. Bruce Publishing Co., 1948. Dust jacket. $35.00
SOLD Selcer, Richard F., Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend in the Red-Light District, 1st ed., (1991), 364pgs, $40.00
Senier, Sioghan. Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard. Focuses on three women who acted as public storytellers and to challenge the national drive to assimilate indigenous peoples. University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $29.95
SOLD Setmour, Bruce, Lola Montez: A Life, 1st ed., (1996), $37.50
SOLD Sewell, Ernestine P. Loula Grace Erdman. Southwest Writers Series No. 33. Steck-Vaughn, 1970. Wraps. $4.50
Shadegg, Stephen C. Miss Lulu's Legacy. A history of the medical services in the Salt River Valley, Arizona. Arizona State University, 1984. Dust jacket. $20.00
Shirley, Glenn. Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts and the Legends. A standard reference on this intriguing woman - Shirley has assembled the major writings and legends on Starr. University of Oklahoma Press. Soft cover. $19.95
Shutes, Jeanne and Jill Mellick. The Worlds of P'Otsun: Geronima Cruz Montoya of San Juan Pueblo. The inspiring story of an artist, education and cultural leader of New Mexico. 1st edition. University of New Mexico, 1996. Dust jacket. $37.50
Sigaud, Louis A. Belle Boyd: Confederate Spy. A narrative of this infamous woman written by a soldier in the American Inteligence Police during World War I. 2nd edition. Dietz Press, 1945. Dust jacket. $25.00
Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. A history of some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War - women in the north. Examines their patriotism as well as their ability to confront new conomic and political challenges. Harvard University Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $29.95
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko. Edited by Ellen L. Arnold. University Press of Mississippi, 2000. $45.00
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $45.00
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller. Storytelling is alive, but imbued with the power to move and deeply affect us. Arcade Publishing, 1981. Soft cover oblong. $12.95
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life. 1st edition. These essays provide a brilliant and haunting portrait of Native Americans and the realities of their life in America today. Simon & Schuster, 1996. Dust jacket. $23.00
SOLD Silverthorne, Elizabeth and Geneva Fulgham. Women Pioneers in Texas Medicine. Pioneering figures who forged new paths for women in fields ranging from nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry to general and hosptial practice. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 1997. Dust jacket. $24.95
Smith, Annick, Homestead. 1st edition. This Montana author backtracks through her life, family, and intellectual heritage in search of clues to the woman she has become. Milkweed, 1995. Dust jacket. $19.95
Smith, Dama Margaret. I Married a Ranger. The story of Mrs. White Mountain Smith. Previous owner's bookplate on front end sheet. Stanford University Press, 1931. Orange cloth with spine lightly faded. $50.00
Smith, Doris Sawyer. This, Too is Ours: A Panorama of New Mexico. 1st edition. Joyously she introduces the reader to a state which is unique in its cultural heritage-American, Spanish, Indian, and Mexican influences blending together to create New Mexico's special charm Naylor, 1965. Dust jacket. $15.00
Smith, Duane A. A Visit With the Tomboy Bride: Harriet Backus & Her Friends. A tale of adventurous life at the Tomboy Mine high above Telluride, Colorado. 1st edition. Western Reflections Publishing Co., 2003. Soft cover. $12.95
Smith, Jane Burnett. Hobbled Stirrups. Autobiography of a woman who followed the career of a professional saddle bronc rider. Caxton Press, 2006. Soft cover. $17.95
SOLD Smith, Olga Wright, Gold on the Desert. A tale of a woman in the southern Arizona desert. 1st edition. University of New Mexico Press, 1956. Dust jacket. $35.00
Smith, Susan L. Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950. Brilliantly researched, providing an important contribution to the history of midwifery and health care. University of Illinois Press, 2005. Soft cover. $25.00
Snell, Alma Hogan. Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life. Edited by Becky Matthews. The remarkable story of Snell, brought up by her grandmother, the famous medicine woman Pretty Shield. University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Dust jacket. $25.00
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. Completing the Circle. Written by one of the most important writers of books for young people about Sioux life and culture. University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Dust jacket. $20.00
So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. Edited by Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Armitage and Christine Dichamp. Letters, diaries, and memoirs offer glimpses of women's courage, physical strength, and independence that were the equal of any man's, even as they also reveal the failures, weaknesses, and tragedies that beset both sexes during the settlement process. University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Dust jacket. $40.00
SOLD Sollid, Roberta Beed, Calamity Jane, 1st ed., 1995, 163 pages $14.95
A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau. 1st edition. Edited by Lillian A. Ackerman. Thirty-two color and fifty-eight black and white illustrations demonstrate the range of geometric and representational designs on exquisite coiled baskets and basketry hats, beaded cradleboards and much more. University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Soft cover. $24.95
Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of Native American Women: Encyclopedia of Women. Dispels popular myths and introduces more than 100 fascinating, largely unknown American Indian women. Facts on File, 1998. Casebound. $27.95
Spiering, Frank. Lizzie. The untold story - with its startling solution - of Lizzie Borden and the most famous and fascinating of all American murder cases. 1st edition. Random House, 1984. Dust jacket. $22.50
The Spirit of Indian Women. Edited by Judith Fitzgerald & Michael Oren Fitzgerald. Introduction by Janine Pease. Photographs and words of the Native American women provide an insight into their life and culture. World Wisdom, 2005. Soft cover. $14.95
SOLD Stallard, Patricia Y. Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army. First Edition. A pathbreaking book that remains the standard work on nineteenth-century military dependents. University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. Dust Jacket. $55.00
SOLD Stallard, Patricia Y. Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army. Forward by Darlis A. Miller. University of Oklahoma Press. Soft cover. $17.95
Stange, Mary Zeiss. Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch. Stange's account of running a bison ranch with her husband in southeastern Montana. University of New Mexico Press, 2010. Dust jacket. $27.95
Steele, Phillip W., Starr Tracks: Belle and Pearl Starr, 1989, 112 pages, $6.95
Stegner, Wallace. Women on The Wall. Eighteen stories about women who wait for their men to come back from war. University of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $20.00
Stewart, Elinore. The Adventures of the Women Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart.1st edition. Edited by Susanne K. George. Stewart related her adventures on an isolated Wyoming homestead with such vividness, gusto, and sympathy that she has become the woman homesteader. University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Dust jacket. $25.00
Stineman, Esther Lanigan, Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick. 1st edition. Yale University Press, 1989. Dust jacket. $45.00
Stockel, H. Henrietta. Chiricahua Apache Women and Children: Safekeepers of the Heritage. 1st edition. Texas A&M Press, 2000. Dust jacket. $24.95
Stockel, H. Henrietta, Women of the Apache Nation:Voices of Truth. An important study of Chiriahua Apache women. 1st edition. University of Nevada Press, 1991. Dust jacket. $40.00
Stockel, H. Henrietta, Women of the Apache Nation:Voices of Truth. An important study of Chiriahua Apache women. University of Nevada Press, 1991. Soft cover. $19.95
Stoecklein, David R. Cowgirls. Commemorating the Women of the West. Stoecklein Publishing, 1999. Dust jacket. $60.00
Stone, Irving. Immortal Wife: A Biographical Novel. Dynamic story of Jessie Benton Fremont. Doubleday, 1944. Dust jacket with wear. $15.00
Stratton, Joanna L. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A detailed record of women's courage and civilizing impact on the frontier. Simon and Schuster, 1981. Dust jacket. $30.00
SOLD Stratton, Joanna L. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A detailed record of women's courage and civilizing impact on the frontier. Previous owner's name on front endsheet. Simon and Schuster, 1982. Soft cover $12.95
Stratton, Royal B. Captivity of the Oatman Girls. Includes the informational sheet from Time-Life. Time-Life Classics. Brown leatherette with gold printing. $32.50
Stratton, Royal B. Captivity of the Oatman Girls. Foreword by Wilcomb E. Washburn. Tale of the 1851 capture of the Oatman girls in Arizona. Reprint of the enlargedthirdedition. university of Nebraska Press. Soft cover. $16.95
SOLD Stratton, Royal B. Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians. 3rd printing. Carlton & Porter, 1860. Embossed brown cloth shows age. $58.00
Strum, Philippa. Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights. A little beyond our traditional collection, but these women were pioneers too. University Press of Kansas, 2002. Dust jacket. $34.95
Stumpff, April D. April Richards: "A Woman's Place is in the Dome." Illustrated by Patrick Messersmith. Young adult's biography of this Texas governor. Sgtate House Press, 2008. Casebound. $14.95
Summerhayes, Martha, Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman. Previous owner's stamp on front endsheet. 2nd edition. Salem Press, 1911. Blue decorated cloth worn on edges. $75.00
Summerhayes, Martha. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman. Historical Introduction, Glossary and Bibliographical Notes by Ray Brandes. Limited and numbered to 1500 copies of 1st printing of 4th edition. Arizona Silhouettes, 1960. Dust jacket with minor wear and small piece missing on top back spine. $50.00
Summerhayes, Martha. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman. New introduction by Dan L. Thrapp. University of Nebraska Press, Soft cover. $15.95
Sundquist, Asebrit. Sacajawea & Co. The Twentieth-Century Fictional American Indian Woman and Fellow Characters: A Study of Gender and Race. A study of Native woman in literature. Solum Forlag A, 1991. Black cloth. $50.00
Supernaw, Susan. Muscogee Daughter; My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant. The story of Supernaw, a Creek, Muscogee and Munsee Native American and her Oklahoma tribe. University of Nebraska Press, 2010. Dust jacket. $24.95
A Sweet, Seperate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922. Edited by Susan Cummins Miller. This diverse and comprehensive anthology of thirty-four writers who were originally published during the settlement years of the American frontier represents a spectacular addition to the growing canon of "recovered" writing by nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century women. University of Utah, 2000. Soft cover. $21.95
A Sweet, Seperate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922. Edited by Susan Cummins Miller, with a new preface. This diverse and comprehensive anthology of thirty-four writers who were originally published during the settlement years of the American frontier represents a spectacular addition to the growing canon of "recovered" writing by nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century women. Texas Tech University Press, 2007. Soft cover. $26.95
SOLD Tabor, Pauline. Pauline's. Touchstone Publishing Co., 1972. $35.00
Tallchief, Maria and Larry Kaplan. Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina. 1st edition. Present at the creation of the world-famous New York City Ballet, this beautiful full-blooded Osage Indian married ballet master George Balanchine and brought dance to the center stage in America's cultural life. Henry Holt, 1997. Dust jacket. $27.50
Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856-1884. Edited by Amy L. Wink. This eye-opening book offers a far more complex and intimate version of women's cultural experiences in mid-nineteenth century Texas than the mythology of the frontier Texas woman. University of Tennessee Press, 2008. Dust jacket. $56.00
SOLD Taylor, Robert. Loving Belle Starr, 1st ed., (1984), 215 pages, $35.00
SOLD Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African American Woman's Civil War Memoir. Introduction by Catherine Clinton provides historical context for the events that form the backdrop of Taylor's memoir. This is the story of a woman born into slavery and her wartime responsibilities and travesl with troops in South Carolina,Georgia and Florida. Reprint of original 1902 edition. University of Georgia Press, 2006. Soft cover. $12.95
Temple, Judy Nolte. Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin. A significant contribution to women's study and the American west; a study of Elizabeth mcCourt who guarded the Matchless Mine who had married Colorado's wealthiest mining magnate. University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Dust jacket. $24.95
Terrell, John Upton and Donna M. Indian Women of the Western Morning: Their Life in Early American. 1st edition. The authors have tried to portary American Indian women as they appeared, to tell something of their spiritual beliefs and their ways of life, at the beginning of recorded history. Dial Press, 1974. $36.50
Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848. Translated with introduction and commentary by Rose Marie Beeve and Robert M. Senkewicz. A pioneering work of scholarship and critical interpretation that allow us to listen to the lives and times of thirteen women. Heyday Books, 2006. Soft cover. $18.95
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails. Edited by Sara R. Massey. Tells the story of sixteen women who drive cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the ninteenth century. For the most part, these were ordinary women doing the best they could in difficult frontier conditions. They did not see themselves as living in unusual times or participating in "romantic" lifestyles, although the women who actually took to the trail were few in number. Like the cowboys on cattle drives, they faced dust and heat, thirst and exhaustion, rustlers and Indians, stampedes and prairie fires. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Dust jacket. $29.95
Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West. Edited and with an introduction by Shirley A. Leckie and Nancy J. Parezo. The ten women who are showcased in this volume were pioneers in the writing of Indian-centered history, ethnology and folklore. They include Mari Sandoz, Alice Marriott, Angie Debo, Marjorie Lambert, Dorothea Leighton and Ruth Underhill. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Soft cover. $27.95
Tinker, Edward Larocque. The Machiavellian Madam of Basin Street & other Tales of New Orleans. Several tales of life in New Orleans. Encino Press, 1969. Green paper boards. $20.00
Tong, Benson. Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and Reformer. Foreword by Dennis Hastings. The story of a Native American woman who successfully walked in both the Indian and white worlds. University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $34.95
Traywick, Ben T. Hell's Belles of Tombstone. Wraps. $12.50
Trenton, Patricia, ed. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, 1st edition. (1995), $29.95
Tsui, Bonnie. She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War. This book introduces a selection of women who fought on the battlefield and others who challenged traditional gender roles, engaging in such activities as espoinage, freing slaves, and leading efforts to better sanitary conditions in military facilities. 1st edition. TwoDot, 2003. Dust jacket. $19.95
Tucker, Phillip Thomas. Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier. The story of an exceptional woman whose story is not well known. She became a Buffalo Soldier, serving in one of the six black units formed following the Civil War. 1st edition. Stackpole Books, 2002. Dust jacket. $26.95
Turner, Nancy E. These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 Arizona Territories. Fiction set in a historically accurate backdrop. Chosen as the 2008 OneBookAZ title and a finalist for the Willa Cather Literary Award. Book includes reading group discussion questions. HarperCollins. Soft cover. $14.95
Underhill, Ruth M. Papago Woman. Contains the autobiography of Chona. Waveland Press, 1985. Soft cover. $15.00
University of Arizona Library. Women in Transition. Bibliographic Bulletin. January 1976. Wraps. $7.50
Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works. Edited by Electra Arenal & Stacey Schlau, translations by Amanda Powell. Study and anthologize representative nuns' writings which reveal contradictions of female monastic life, repression and liberation, conformity and individuality. University of New Mexico Press, 2010. Soft cover. $35.00
Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870. The long-neglected story of inter-racial fur-trade families and the unique society they developed. University of Oklahoma Press. Soft cover. $24.95
Van Lew, Elizabeth. A Yankee Spy in Richmond:The Civil War Diary of "Crazy Bet" Van Lew, 1st ed., 1996. $22.95
Vannoy-Rhodes, Cynthia. Seasons on a Ranch. A rancher who shares an insider's knowledge of the life she loves. 1st edition. Pruett Publishing, 1986. Dust jacket. $30.00
Varon, Elizabeth. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. A northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital who proved to be a daring spymaster and postwar politician. 1st edition. Oxford University Press, 2003. Dust jacket. $35.00
Victor, Frances Fuller, Women of the Gold Rush: The New Penelope and Other Stories. Edited with Introduction by Ida Rae Egli. A popular writer of the early West, whose works appeared in the Overland Monthly and other literary publications. Heyday Books, 1998. Soft cover. $12.95
Voget, Fred W. They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose. 1st edition. Through Agnes, Crow reveals changes wrought in this once far-ranging, independent tribe by twentieth-century forces. University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Dust jacket. $32.50
Vogliotti, Gabriel R. The Girls of Nevada. Racy account of prostition. Citadel Press, 1975. Yellow boards, black cloth spine. $17.50
SOLD Wachowich, Nancy. Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women. In collaboration with Aphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak. McGill - Queens University Press, 1999. Dust jacket. $34.95
Wade, Bob. Cowgirls. Foreword by Linda Gray. A collection of vintage black and white photos tinted by Wade with delightful commentary. Gibbs Smith, 1995. Pictoral casebound. $9.95
Waernskjold, Elise. The Lady with the Pen: Elise Waernskjold in Texas. 1st edition. Edited by C.A. Clausen. Elise's letters present a kaleidoscopic portrait of the immigrant colonies in Texas with which she cast her fortunes. Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1961. Gray and white cloth. $35.00
Waggoner, Linda M. Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist. Biography of a teacher, artist and Red Progressive, describing how De Cora's Metis roots allowed her tobecome accepted as an artist and designer in white society. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Dust jacket. $34.95
Ward, Elizabeth. No Dudes Few Women: Life with a Navajo Range Rider: Life with a Navaho Range Rider. 1st edition. Ward lived on Wagon Road Ranch in Southern Arizona. This is a work about life on the 25,000 mile Navajo reservation. University of New Mexico Press, 1951. Dust jacket. $50.00
Warren, Andrea. Pioneer Girl: A True Story of Growing Up on the Prairie. With a new afterword by the author. A personal portrait of one woman's lifein America's heartland during the late nineteenth century. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Soft cover. $14.95
Watt, Roberta Frye. 4 Wagons West: The Story of Seattle. Woman's recollections of travelling overland to Seattle and other stories of the women and the city. Illustrated by Paul Gustin. Binfords & Mort, 1931. Dust jacket. $22.50
SOLD Webb, Melody. A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service. Recounts the trials of preserving the nation's most beautiful and historic places, including encounters with politicians and lobbyists. University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Soft cover. $18.95
Weber, Nan. Mattie; A Woman's Journey West. Taste of life through the story of Martha Shipley Culver who traveled West with her family to Yellowstone National Park, where she died in 1889. Homestead Publishing, 1997. Soft cover. $14.95
Weigand, Cindy. Texas Women in World War II. In this unique volume, individual stories of female World War II veterans now living in Texas are told. These courageous women revel thier war experiences and reactions of their families. Republic of Texas Press, 2003. Soft cover. $18.95
Werner, Emmy E. Pioneer Children on the Journey West, (1995), 202 pages, $21.95
West, Beverly. More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women. A profile of twelve women whose artistry, intelligence, and courage broke down barries in the Land of Enchantment and throughout the world: Harvey Girls, Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto, pioneers of education, Nampeyo, Elsie Clews Parson, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Globe Pequot Press, 2001. Soft cover. $10.95
West, Elliott. Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier. University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Soft cover. $24.95
Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives. Edited by Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz, & Janice Monk. Essays gathered here, first presented at a 1984 conference, that interprets the new body of women's research. University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Soft cover. $16.95
The Western Women's Reader: The Remarkable Writings of Women Who Shaped the American West, Spanning 300 years. Edited by Lillian Schlissel and Catherine Lavender. Offers a broad range of writing, photography and art with selections of fiction, memoir, history and poetry. HarperPerennial, 2000. Soft cover.$18.00
Westward the Women: An Anthology of Western Stories by Women. Edited by Vicki Piekarski. Fictional stories by such authors as Willa Cather, Mary Austin, Peggy Curry and Leslie Silko, who have provided memorab le characters in a variety of western settings. University of New Mexico Press. Soft cover. $12.95
Westwood, Richard E. Woman of the River: Georgie White Clark - White - Water Pioneer. Foreword by Roy Webb. Utah State University Press, 1997. Soft cover. $19.95
SOLD Wetherill, Marietta. Marietta Wetherill: Reflections on Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon. Compiled and edited by Kathryn Gabriel. Introduction by Elizabeth Jameson. A lively firsthand account. Johnson Books, 1992. Dust jacket. $27.50
Wetherill, Marietta. Marietta Wetherill: Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon. Compiled and edited by Kathryn Gabriel. Introduction by Elizabeth Jameson. A lively firsthand account. University of New Mexico Press. Soft cover. $19.95
Whaley, Charlotte. Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe. 1st edition. Otero-warren was born to a prominent Spanish land-owning family in Los Lunas, New Mexico and successfully negotiated compilated cross-cultural terrain and created a life that transcended the boundaries imposed by early 20th century society. University of New Mexico, 1994. Dust jacket. $29.95
*What Wildness is this: Women Write About the Southwest. Edited by Susan Wittig Albert and others. Introduction by Kathleen Dean Moore. A collection of short stories, poems, and essays about their experiences of the natural world of the Southwest. University of Texas Press, 2007. Soft cover. $19.95
Wilbur-Cruce, Eva Antonia, Beautiful Cruel Country. 1st edition. An autobiographical account of life on the Mexico and Arizona territory border. University of Arizona Press, 1987. Dust jacket. $45.00
Wild West Weekly. Young Wild West and the Cow Girl Queen. February 16, 1923. Wraps. $10.00
Wilke, Joanne. Eight Women, Two Model Ts and the American West. Story of eight women from Iowa who rode across the West in 1924. University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Soft cover. $18.95
Wilkins, Mesannie with Mina Titus Sawyer. Last of the Saddle Tramps. Warm and humorous story of he 63-year-old woman who traveled alone on horseback from Maine to California. Preface by Art Linkletter. Wear on inside front cover. Prentice-Hall, 1967. Dust jacket with minor wear. $25.00
SOLD Williams, George III. The Red Light Ladies of Virginia City Nevada. 1st printing. Tree by the River Publishing, 1984. Wraps. $8.50
SOLD Williams, Jacqueline, Wagon Wheels Kitchen: Food on the Oregon Trail. Foreword by Sam'l P. Arnold. University Press of Kansas, 1993. Dust jacket. $29.95
Williams, Jacqueline, Wagon Wheels Kitchen: Food on the Oregon Trail. Foreword by Sam'l P. Arnold. University Press of Kansas, 1993. Soft cover. $14.95
Wills, Kathy Lynn and Virginia Artho. Cowgirl Legends: From the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. 1st edition. Foreword by Reba McEntire. A great look into this tough breed.z Gibbs-Smith, 1995. Brown leatherette binding, gilt titles & decoration, pasted color plate photo to front board. $22.50
SOLD Winger, Otho. Frances Slocum Trail, Rpt., 1967, 100 pages, $20.00
SOLD Winger, Otho. The Lost Sister Among the Miamis, Rpt., 1936, $15.00
Women and Change at the U.S. - Mexico Border: Mobility, Labor, and Activism. Edited by Dorren J. Mattingly and Ellen R. Hansen. A powerful account of the daily life of border women. University of Arizona Press, 2006. Dust jacket. $45.00
SOLD Women and Change at the U.S. - Mexico Border: Mobility, Labor, and Activism. Edited by Dorren J. Mattingly and Ellen R. Hansen. A powerful account of the daily life of border women. University of Arizona Press, 2008. Soft cover. $24.95
Women and Power in Native North America. 1st edition. Edited by Laura F. Klein and Lillian A. Ackerman. By examining gender status, and particularly power, in ten culture areas, the editors seek to draw away the curtain of silence surrounding the lives of Native American women. University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. $29.95
Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America. Edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole. Six studies that reintegrates women into nineteenth century political theory and highlights their participation in polticial life. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. Dust jacket. $24.95
Women in the Life of Southern California: An Anthology. Edited by Doyce B.Nunis. Compiled from Southern California Quarterly. Collection of historical essays about women in Southern California History. Limited to 500 copies. Historical Society of Southern California, 1996. $50.00
Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images. 1st edition. Edited by Marta Weigle. This intriguing collection of New Deal photographs and texts documents women's lives in the late 1930s and early 40s New Mexico from the railroad yards at Clovis to the homestead community of Pie Town and from Taos County Hispanic villages to Lea County ranches. Ancient City, 1993. Dust jacket. $40.00
Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images. 1st edition. Edited by Marta Weigle. This intriguing collection of New Deal photographs and texts documents women's lives in the late 1930s and early 40s New Mexico from the railroad yards at Clovis to the homestead community of Pie Town and from Taos County Hispanic villages to Lea County ranches. Ancient City, 1993. Soft cover. $18.95
Women Who Create. An invitational exhibition of Arizona Artists. Exhibit catalog. 1985. Wraps. $5.00
The Women's West. Edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson. Collection of twenty-one articles creates a multidimensional portrait of western women. University of Oklahoma, 1988. Dust jacket. $45.00
Wommack, Linda R. Our Ladies of the Tenderloin: Colorado's Legends in Lace. Unique look at female life in the oldest profession on Colorado's frontier. Caxton Press, 2005. Soft cover. $16.95
Wood-Clark, Sarah. Beautiful Daring Western Girls: Women of the Wild West Shows. This look at women fills a gap in our understanding not only of American popular culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also of the changing role of women in a male-dominated pursuit. Artcraft, 1991. Wraps. $40.00
Woodin, Ann. Home is the Desert. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. A woman's life with four sons, a hundred animals and the brilliant desert of the American southwest. Presentation copy signed by the author. 1st printing. Macmillian, 1964. Dust jacket. $15.00
Wronsky, Calamity & Belle Bendall. Calamity & Belle: Cowgirl Correspondence - with mementos and illustrations. A delightful book that gives us the chance to look over the shoulds of two frank, feisty, cynical, but still softhearted western women. Illustrated by Bill Schenck. Gibbs-Smith Publisher, 1993. Dust jacket. $17.95
Yohn, Susan M. A Contest of Faiths: Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest. 1st edition. Important contribution to the literature on women missionaries. Cornell University Press, 1995. Soft cover. $16.95
Young, Virginia Heyer. Ruth Benedict - Beyond Relativity, Beyond Pattern. Biography of one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, trained by Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons. University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Dust jacket. $60.00
SOLD Youst, Lionel. She's Tricky Like Coyote: Annie Miner Peterson an Oregeon Coast Indian Woman. 1st ed., (1997), $24.95
Zanjani, Sally. Sarah Winnemucca. The story of one of the most influential and charismatic Native American women in American History. University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Dust jacket. $29.95
Zanjani, Sally. Sarah Winnemucca. The story of one of the most influential and charismatic Native American women in American History. University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Soft cover. $17.95
SOLD Zauner, Phyllis, Those Spirited Women of the Early West. Rpt, (1989), $6.95
Zwinger, Susan, & Ann Zwinger. Women in Wilderness: Writings and Photographs. Ten captivating essays on women's perspectives and attitudes toward nature and the wonders that the wild has to offer. 1st edition. Harcourt Brace, 1995. Soft cover. $19.95

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