The Women's West
- ISBN-10
- 0806120673
- ISBN-13
- 9780806120676
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 323
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Authors
- Susan Armitage, Elizabeth Jameson
Description
Uses selections from diaries, public records, letters, interviews, and fiction to describe the experiences of women in the West, including Indians, servants, waitresses, prostitutes, and farmers
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