Grit and Grace

Across the past 150 years of  Western American history scholarship, dozens of authors have been inspired to research and write about mining in the West, but few have written about the role of women miners and their contributions to the settlement of the West. Now, with Linda Wommack’s groundbreaking Women of the Colorado Mines (Farcountry Press, $18.95) we have one of the first efforts to chronicle the role of women in the mining districts of the boom and bust gold and silver towns of Colorad