num_pages: 256
description: Presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine notorious women from the days of boisterous frontier saloons and high-noon showdowns.Introduction-what is a wild woman? --Baby Doe Tabor-the culture of beauty / Glenda Riley --Emily D. West (Morgan)-the Yellow Rose of Texas / Carmen Goldthwaite --Polly Bemis-lurid life or literary legend? / Priscilla Wegars --Mattie, Katie, and Ida-western women at risk / Anne M. Butler --Sadie Orchard-a hard-working woman / Glenda Riley --Lucille Mulhall-a true western cowgirl / Candy Moulton --Bertha Kaepernik Blancett-the woman who stayed aboard / M.J. Van Deventer --Cattle Kate-homesteader or cattle thief? / Lori Van Pelt --Calamity Jane-the making of a frontier legend / Richard W. Etulain
language: English
title: Wild Women of the Old West
titlecomplete: Wild Women of the Old West (Notable Westerners)
genres: History
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum