Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film

by Ron Lackmann

This work 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 first detailed; one discovers that Starr was indeed friends with notorious bank robbers of the time, including Jesse James and Cole Younger, but was herself primarily a cattle and horse thief. Wives and lovers of some of the West's most famous outlaws...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786428457
• ISBN13: 9780786428458
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher