The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West

by Dee Brown

Overview

All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803250253
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	09/01/1981
Series:	Women of the West
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	335
Sales rank:	1,154,943
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dee Brown is author of numerous books including Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. The Fetterman Massacre and The Galvanized Yankees are both available as Bison Books.

Editorial Reviews

"The promise implicit in the title of this book is not broken. Mr. Brown has assembled a notable collection of women who took part in the migrations westward, mostly in the period of 1850–1880, and presents them, often with enthusiasm and always with sympathy. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Brown's book."—Stewart Holbrook, New York Herald Tribune Books

New York Herald Tribune Books - Stewart Holbrook

"Underlying the book's fascinating comedy and pathos and terror, there is a sociological overtone. Mr. Brown shows that the reactions of these women to their frontier experience were as important as male reactions in the development of American mores and American democracy."—Marshall Sprague, New York Times Book Review

New York Times Book Review - Marshall Sprague

"Underlying the book's fascinating comedy and pathos and terror, there is a sociological overtone. Mr. Brown shows that the reactions of these women to their frontier experience were as important as male reactions in the development of American mores and American democracy."—Marshall Sprague, New York Times Book Review

— Marshall Sprague

New York Times Book Review

"The promise implicit in the title of this book is not broken. Mr. Brown has assembled a notable collection of women who took part in the migrations westward, mostly in the period of 1850–1880, and presents them, often with enthusiasm and always with sympathy. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Brown's book."—Stewart Holbrook, New York Herald Tribune Books

— Stewart Holbrook

New York Herald Tribune Books

The promise implicit in the title of this book is not broken. Mr. Brown has assembled a notable collection of women who took part in the migrations westward, mostly in the period of 1850—1880, and presents them, often with enthusiasm and always with sympathy….I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Brown's book.
—New York Herald Tribune Books

Stuart Holbrook

Underlying the book's fascinating comedy and pathos and terror, there is a sociological overtone. Mr. Brown shows that the reactions of these woman to their frontier experience were as important as male reactions in the development of American mores and American democracy.
—New York Times Book Review

Michael Sprague