... into the western region of what is today the United States, after which fur traders began to arrive in much larger numbers, followed by gold prospectors, ranchers, miners, and others (Cassity 2011; Hughes 2000; Sanderson 2011).
Along about the time this tale begins, the countryside around Charleston was infested with highwaymen, who seemed to operate on the highway in the area around two buildings: Six Mile House and Five Mile House.
Title: Outlaw women : prison, rural violence, and poverty in the American West / Susan Dewey [and four others]. Description: New York: New York University Press, [2019]| Includes bibliographical references and index.
Outlaw Women
After the town bank is robbed--purportedly by women--Clint Adams decides to leave Benbow and stay out of trouble.
This text argues that unique rural cultural dynamics shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as 'the Western frontier.