The Gentle Tamers

A fascinating history of women on America’s western frontier by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it’s the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too—and this book tells their stories. At first, female pioneers were indeed rare—when the town of Denver was founded in 1859, there w