Notorious Women of the West: The Good, The Bad and the Eccentric

ISBN: 1930052278

Author: Marjorie K. Lorenz

Condition: New

This book includes 30 chapters about famous women of the Old West. Forty women are mentioned in these chapters.The author's interest started in the fourth grade when she read about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Much later, she read Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. This experience inspired her to do extensive research on Sacagewea. She then continued her research into the lives of other women of the west who came from many backgrounds. their personality and character traits were juast as diversed, ranging from the puritanical to the promiscuous, the cruel to the selfish. Consequencently, their uniqueness and ambition set them apart in the tale of the developing territories..