WILD WEST WOMEN

Lillian Alling couldn't bear to live in New York any longer, but she couldn't save the fare home to Russia either. So she decided to walk home via the United States, British Columbia, Alaska, and Siberia. Nothing could stop her not the enormous distance, not the dangers, not even a jail term. Lillian's is just one of the compelling stories in Rosemary Neering's look at the history of the West from a woman's perspective. Wild West Women features women from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, such as madams who came to mine the miners, prospectors who were still checking on their claims when they were in their eighties, and writers who first feared and then loved the wilderness. Emily Carr, Frances Macnab, Agnes Deans Cameron, and Ma Murray are just some of the independent and determined women profiled in this book through stories, anecdotes, and black and white archival images.