num_pages: 295
description: Dee Brown's study of women in the American West was published before "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" and has a similarly detailed approach to the subject. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed.
language: English
title: The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
titlecomplete: The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
genres: 19th Century, Biography, History, American History, Historical, United States, Womens, Nonfiction, Americana, Westerns
ratings_count: 605
publisher: Bantam Books