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The Cowgirl Way

by | Oct 23, 2010 | Western Books

Holly George-Warren (Houghton Mifflin, $18)
When women moved to the American West with the great migration of the 1800s, they left behind some of the constricting rules of femininity, becoming pioneers, farmers and cowpokes, just like the men. The term “cowgirl” often evokes singing celluloid cowgirls and fashionistas of cowgirl style. Yet, as many of the photos in this short cowgirl history demonstrate, the women are a


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