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Guilford, Connecticut:: Twodot,, (2011). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A biography of Elizabeth Bacon Custer, one of the most famous American women of her time, who recreated her husband's image after the Battle of Little Bighorn. Libbie Custer was an unusual woman who followed her army husband's career to its… Read more about this item

New York:: Skyhorse Publishing,, (2020). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. When Bobbi Phelps married Mike Wolverton, an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. The contrast between her suburban background and her farming life was both challenging, sometimes fearful but overall very rewarding.… Read more about this item

Stanford, CA:: Stanford Alumni Association,, 1975.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (bookplate on front pastedown, inscription on front endpaper). First printing. The life of a remarkable woman, as revealed through her letters - one who came into her own after the death of her husband and struggled to ensure the survival… Read more about this item

University of Texas at El Paso:: Texas Western Press,, 1973.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). First printing. A carefully researched story of this woman who lived very privately for most of her life in El Paso, Texas. She was born in 1881 in Missouri, and moved to the small frontier town… Read more about this item

New York:: Dood, Mead, and Company, , (1965). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (a bit of wear to the ends of the spine of the dj). First printing. A book which describes some of the many ways in women made their way West - some were captured by Indians -… Read more about this item

Lakeport, CA:: Wesanne Publications,, (1992.). SIGNED -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 3rd printing (revised). Trade paperback. Brief biographies of 15 19th century women, each of whom left their mark on California and Nevada - including Eliza Cook, Nevada's first woman doctor, Lily Langtree, Eilley Orrum, Charley Parkhurst, stage coach driver, and others. Illustrated with photographs.… Read more about this item

Berkeley & San Francisco:: Heyday and California Historical Society,, (2016). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Foreword by Josh Sides. "In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld ". . . … Read more about this item

Indian Well, CA:: McKenna Publishing Group,, (2005). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Short stories, articles and recipes. Illustrated with photographs. Many of the recipes have both the original version and a more modern version (although some -like for barbecued squirrel - only have the original version.) INSCRIBED… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO:: University Press of Colorado,, (2000.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Historically accurate novel which tells the story of the Gold Rush through the eyes of a reluctant 49er - a woman who accompanied her husband, but whose focus was on the survival of her children and her… Read more about this item

Stanford, CA:: Stanford Alumni Association,, 1985.. Hardcover -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some rubbing, edgewear to dj.). Revised edition. Stanford's life and work in founding the University named after her only son, as revealed through her letters. This revised edition contains many more photographs, interspersed throughout the text, than the original edition… Read more about this item

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, 1992.. SIGNED -. Very good (some soiling to edges of textblock). 1st trade paperback printing. Based on many previously little known diaries, this tells of women who came West seeking the 'elephant' alone, as well as with their families. The women whose stories are told ranged from innkeepers to prostitutes to school… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO:: University Press of Colorado,, (2000.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Historically accurate novel which tells the story of the Gold Rush through the eyes of a reluctant 49er - a woman who accompanied her husband, but whose focus was on the survival of her children and her… Read more about this item

Saskatoon, Canada:: Prairie Books, The Western Producer, , 1969.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some light edgewear to the dj).. First edition. Memoir of growing up on the plains of Canada in the early years of the 20th century. "Mrs. Parson's has captured the feeling of being a part of… Read more about this item

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press,, (1997.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A ground-breaking and very interesting anthology of twenty-nine essays that (as stated on the dustjacket): 'present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and… Read more about this item

New York:: Greenwich Book Publishers,, (1961). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good dustjacket (a few spots of foxing to the endpapers, some rubbing to the dj, sunning to the spine.). First edition. An account of her years in the West - born in South Dakota, she moved to Nevada where she spent 5… Read more about this item

Reno & Las Vegas, NV:: University of Nevada Press,, (2012). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) An account of Annie Johnston - "Wild Horse Annie" - twenty-seven year fight to save the mustangs from slaughter - and to establish refuges for them, not just in her… Read more about this item

Mankato, MN: : Creative Education, , 2006.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated boards. . First printing. Written for older children, this is a brief biography and look at the legend of Phoebe Ann Moses, born in Ohio in 1860, who became known as Annie Oakley, a tiny woman who became one of… Read more about this item

Mankato, MN: : Creative Education, , 2006.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated boards. . First printing. Written for older children, this is a brief biography and look at the legend of Martha Jane Cannary, who became known as Calamity Jane, including her experiences as a scout for General Custer and her years… Read more about this item

Portland, OR:: Oregon Historical Society,, (1969). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated white wrappers.. First printing. a slim trade paperback. Collects three accounts of women from early Oregon history - .Frances Fuller Victor and the Temperance League in the title story; Portland attorney Mary Leonard (who was tried and acquited of the murder of… Read more about this item

El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press / The University of Texas at El Paso, , (1993). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a slim trade paperback. Biography of Irish-born Nellie Cashman (1850-1925) who, after arriving in Boston in the 1860s, soon went West and became a prospector and boarding house proprietor in mining towns… Read more about this item