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Book

The cowgirl way : hats off to America's women of the West

Call Number

  • J 920 GEOR (OSH)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, c2010.

Physical Description

112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Summary

Discusses the migration of people from the eastern part of America to the western frontier in the 1840s and the related origins of the cowgirl in the form of sharpshooters, outlaws, legislators, wranglers, and performers who helped settle the American West.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Women of the old West
  • Outlaws and rebels
  • Wild West show girls
  • Rodeo stars
  • Celluloid cowgirls and singing sensations
  • Cowgirl image makers
  • 21st century cowgirls.

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