Women in the American West

This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West.• Includes a chronology of major historical events in the history of the American West from the early 1800s to the present, and explores their connection to the women highlighted in the book• Approximately 30 photographs, including images of Japanese women in internment camps during World War II, images that document women's roles in the 1968 United Farmworkers strike, and depictions of women's increasingly prominent roles in sports