Virginia Scharff is an associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico and the author of Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age.
“By including a wealth of significant detail and drawing heavily on
her heroines’ own stories, the author admirably re-creates the
early West from a feminine viewpoint.”—New York Times Book
Review
“The book’s strength is its . . . detail about daily life and the
great diversity of kinds of people who inhabited the Far
West.”—Library Journal
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