Six-Gun Ladies: Women Who Won the West and Men along for the Ride. Romantic Tales of the Range

Everyone knows that Calamity Jane was a top-hand wrangler of wild mustangs and Annie Oakley could bull's-eye a target while the males in a contest were still lining up their sights. Which is another way of saying that women on the wild-west frontier rose to challenges that in reality surpassed those of males. In addition to guiding the plow, weaving the homespun, swinging the axe, fighting hostile Indians, by biological decree they bore the generation of inheritors.

Talmage Powell's Six-Gun Ladies is can't-put-it-down entertainment, and more, vividly staging the ambience and the role of women in an era that made America great.