Pistols and Petticoats: 13 Female Trailblazers of the Old West

PISTOLS AND PETTICOATS: 13 FEMALE TRAILBLAZERS OF THE OLD WEST contains thirteen chapters dealing with a multidimensional portrait of over two dozen women from the Old West. Why these particular women: First, these were exemplary women whose lives were then, and still are, uniquely interesting. In addition, these female trailblazers of the Old West are much like the women of today! They detail all you are and all you've been and their presence, like yours, has certainly been a piquant education and an exalted adventure. They followed, falked beside and sometimes led men into situations that the cowboys, gunfighters, farmers, cattlemen, gamblers, sheepherders, cavalrymen, and others would not have encountered if the women had not been there. For certainly their presence, like today, shaped and altered the outcome of every event wherein they participated. They adapted in practical ways to their own and their families' economic and personal needs in this new enviro! nment. They came bestowing and taking life; enduring, nourishing, and confirming life. They pointed the way where the communities could be erected and others came along and built them into what they are today. They absorbed both the intellect and creative emotion of pioneer life itself. It was these pioneering women, and the scores like them, that molded the West of today in all its opulent glory and noble splendor.