Product Description: "Black Frontiers" chronicles the life and times of black men and women who settled the West from 1865 to the early 1900s. In this striking book, you'll meet many of these brave individuals face-to-face, through rare vintage photographs and a fascinating account of their real-life history...read more

Reissued with a new introduction, a classic account of the experiences of pioneer women who journeyed the Overland Trail between 1840 and 1879 draws on diaries, letters, and personal accounts and considers how their experiences have become a focus of historical, feminist, and cultural study. Reprint.

Product Description: Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself – just turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for Nebraska Territory – of her reaction to the transplantation and to her new life which included rattlesnakes, blizzards, Indians, and the hardships of pioneer life...read more

Product Description: Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College–CUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West...read more

Product Description: Explore 300 years of the American West with the women who have shaped its historyThis compelling anthology, edited by noted scholars Lillian Schlissel and Catherine Lavender, offers a broad range of writing, photography, and art from women of the American West...read more

Combing outstanding examples of writing and photography, this innovative anthology features the work of women who make the American West their home, presenting some three centuries of writing by Leslie Marmon Silko, Calamity Jane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Tillie Olsen, Velma Wallis, Beverly Hungry Wolf, Angela Davis, and many others. Original. (view table of contents)

After deciding to start a new life on the western frontier, a pioneer family in 1853 begins their journey across the country and must do all they can to help one another through difficult times to make it safely to their final destination. Reprint. K.

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Product Description: Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer. In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West's career to the fore by offering for the first time in book form, three of the plays West wrote in the 1920s--Sex (1926), The Drag (1927) and Pleasure Man (1928)...read more

Product Description: Mae West was, without question, one of the most famous and controversial figures of her era. She was a tough-talking, wise-cracking vaudeville performer who made her way onto the Broadway stage and then into the hearts of the American public with a highly visible Hollywood film career...read more

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Essays discuss the experiences of American Indian, Mexican-American, and Anglo-American women and their role in the development of the West