The West provided a fount of opportunity for women. They ran the wide gamut of characters from wild and woolly women to the stalwart, calico-clad frontier women who made history along with the men. Their stories are of humor, romance, poignancy, hardship, tragedy and triumph. One wrote, “I felt a secret joy to have the power that set things straight.”
It was an ideal place for loners, eccentrics and free spirits. The East was much more suppressed as women's magazines of the day extolled v
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