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Gender, Whiteness, and power in rodeo : breaking away from the ties of sexism and racism by Patton, Tracey Owens

Working the land : the stories of ranch and farm women in the modern American West by Schackel, Sandra

Contents: “…"I'd rather work outside than do housework" : flexible gender roles --…”

The borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests : essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel

Contents: “…"Their own country" : race, gender, landscape, and colonization around the forty-ninth parallel, 1862-1900 /…”
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One step over the line : toward a history of women in the North American Wests 1st ed.

Contents: “…Connecting the women's Wests / Elizabeth Jameson -- Unsettled pasts, unsettling borders : women, Wests, nations / Sheila McManus -- Making connections : gender, race, and place in Oregon country / Susan Armitage -- A transborder family in the Pacific North West : reflecting on race and gender in women's history / Sylvia van Kirk -- Writing women into the history of the North American Wests, one woman at a time / Jean Barman -- "That understanding with nature" : region, race, and nation in women's stories from the modern Canadian and American grassland West / Molly P. …”

Women in the American West by Woodworth-Ney, Laura

Contents: “…Finding "her story" in the American West -- Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West -- Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846 -- Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870 -- Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890 -- The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920 -- War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940 -- The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980 -- Late trends and new directions.…”
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Social class in the writings of Mary Hallock Foote by Smith, Christie

Contents: “…Foote's cultural moment -- Literary allusions in Foote's Leadville novels -- Gender roles in the Leadville novels -- Class for the kids -- The ground-swell, the new woman, and social class -- The early correspondence of Mary Hallock Foote and Helena de Kay Gilder.…”

The last gamble : betting on the future in four Rocky Mountain mining towns by Jensen, Katherine, 1946-2010

Contents: “…The drive for the legalization of gambling -- Race, gender, and class in the legacy of the gamble -- Stagnation and decay in retrospect -- Gold rush returns -- Historic preservation, facadism, and the fast buck -- Community transformation in the gamble -- Mining quarters : settler camps to gambler traps -- Legalized gambling as a community development quick fix.…”

Early rock art of the American West : the geometric enigma by Malotki, Ekkehart, Dissanayake, Ellen

Beyond the borders of the law : critical legal histories of the North American West

Calamity : the many lives of Calamity Jane by Jones, Karen R., 1972-

Contents: “…The Story of Calamity Jane: Tall Tales, Gender Possibility, and Frontier Celebrity -- "A Fearless Rider for a Girl of My Age": Martha Canary Goes West (c.1852-70) -- "I Name You Calamity Jane": Crook, Custer, and Cross-Dressing in the US Cavalry (c.1870-76) -- "Calamity Jane Has Arrived!"…”

Public lands management in the West : citizens, interest groups, and values

Contents: “…Soden -- The Siouxon Valley in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest / Richard Hansis -- Citizen values and participation in the Tongass National Forest debate / Bruce Shindler -- An Oregon case study : families, gender roles, and timber communities in transformation / Jennifer Gilden.…”

Outlaw women : prison, rural violence, and poverty in the American West by Dewey, Susan

The stories that shape us : contemporary women write about the West : an anthology 1st ed.

The female frontier : a comparative view of women on the prairie and the Plains by Riley, Glenda, 1938-

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Downriver : into the future of water in the West by Hansman, Heather

Ghosts of Gold Mountain : the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad by Chang, Gordon H.

Treasures 5. The west, 1898-1938

African American women confront the West : 1600-2000

Contents: “…Hudson -- A voice from the oppressed to the friends of humanity -- Chapter 5: Rights of passage: gendered-rights consciousness and the quest for freedom, San Francisco, California, 1850-1870 / Barbara Y. …”
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