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Catalog:  # 2  / Women in the West / 2007


Blair, K. R. / LADIES OF THE LAMPLIGHT, Montrose, 2000, pb, 108 pages, - 1 -, $ 11, discontinued, now priced at $ 8

Brown, D. / THE GENTLE TAMERS: Women of the Old Wild West, 1958, Lincoln, 317 pages, - 1 -, $ 12 [covers all aspects of western feminine life in the early West; has excellent references for each chapter in the back]

Burke, J. / THE LEGEND OF BABY DOE: The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West, Lincoln, 1989, 248 pages, pb, bibliography, index, - 1 -, $ 13

Butler, A. M. / GENDERED JUSTICE IN THE AMERICAN WEST, Urbana, 1997, cl, 262 pages, - 1 -, $ 19

Chartier, J. and Enss, C. / WITH GREAT HOPE: Women of the California Gold Rush, Helena, 2000, pb, 127 pages, - 1 -, $ 11

Hacker, S. P. / A GOLD MINER’S DAUGHTER: Memoirs of a Mountain Childhood, Boulder, 1996, pb, 198 pages, - 1 -, $ 10

James, R. M. and Raymond, C.E.  /  COMSTOCK WOMEN:  The Making of a Mining Community, Reno, 1998, 394 pages, pb, - 1 -, $ 25 [This is the story of the role of women played in the development of Virginia City as mining continued on the Comstock Lode]

Ledbetter, S. / NELLIE CASHMAN: Prospector and Trailblazer, El Paso, 1993, 83 pages, vg, $ 10 [This is the story of an Irish women who came to American with "gold fever." The story is based in Tucson, Tombstone and Dawson (Yukon Territory)]

Levy, J. / THEY SAW THE ELEPHANT: Women in the California Gold Rush, Norman, 1992, pb, 265 pages, - 1 -, $ 20

Mayer, M. J. / KLONDIKE WOMEN: True Tales of the 1897 - 1898 Gold Rush, Athens, 1989, cl, 267 pages, $ 35 [This is a collection of historical photographs and first hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike Gold Fields]

Mayer, M. J. / KLONDIKE WOMEN: True Tales of the 1897 - 1898 Gold Rush, Athens, 1989, pb, 267 pages, $ 19 [This is a collection of historical photographs and first hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike Gold Fields]

Moynihan, B. / AUGUSTA TABOR, Evergreen, 1988, pb, 145 pages, - 1 -, $ 10

Moynihan, R. B., et.al.  / SO MUCH TO BE DONE: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier, Lincoln, 1990, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, pb, 325 pages, - 1 -, $ 12

Moynihan, R. B., et.al. Editors / SO MUCH TO BE DONE: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier, Lincoln, 1998, 2nd Edition, pb, 353 pages, - 1 -, $ 17

Moynihan, R. B., Armitage, S., and Dichamp, C. F. / SO MUCH TO BE DONE: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier, Lincoln, 1990, 323 pages, cl, - 1 -, $ 45

Myers, S. L. / WESTERING WOMEN AND THE FRONTIER EXPERIENCE, 1800 - 1915, Albuquerque, 1982, pb, 365 pages, - 2 -, $ 16

Pender, R. / A LADY’S EXPERIENCES IN THE WILD WEST IN 1883, Lincoln, 1978, pb, 134 pages, - 1 -, $ 8

Sanodz, M. / MISS MORISSA: Doctor of the Gold Trail, New York, 1955, 249 pages, - 4 -, $ 10 [A novel set in the panhandle of Nebraska concerning medical practice there in late 1800's along trails to leading to the Black Hills]

Zanjani, S. / A MINE OF HER OWN: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850 - 1950, Lincoln, 1999, cl, 387 pages, - 1 -, $ 35

Zanjani, S. / A MINE OF HER OWN: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850 - 1950, Lincoln, 2000, pb, 387 pages, - 1 -, $ 18


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