![]() ![]() If we see a woman at all, it’s a pretty, helpless schoolteacher or that fast-talking dancer at the local brothel.īut what was life REALLY like for women on the rugged frontier? But when we think of frontier legends, we tend to picture grizzled cowboys pointing shiny guns. In 19th-century America, the Wild West was a dream: of striking it rich, of finding fame, a fresh start, or freedom. It was a place of extremes and contradictions: full of epic landscapes and terrible hardships, independence and lawlessness and swing-door saloons.Īmericans were obsessed with the West then, and they still are.
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