About the Author

Susan Armitage is Professor of History and Women Studies at Washington State University and Editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women?s Studies. Armitage is a cofounder of the Coalition for Western Women?s History and coeditor of The Women?s West.

Elizabeth Jameson is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Calgary and coeditor of Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West and The Women's West.