Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film

Provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film and in fiction. The lives of Martha ""Calamity Jane"" Canary and Belle ""The Bandit Queen"" Starr are detailed. Wives and lovers of some of the West's most famous outlaws are also covered along with real-life female entertainers, prostitutes and gamblers.