Westerns : a women's history /
Victoria Lamont.
- Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
- Postwestern horizons .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- 1. Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power -- 2. Domestic Politics and Cattle Rustling -- 3. Women's Westerns and the Myth of the Pseudonym -- 4. Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western -- 5. Cattle Branding and the Traffic in Women -- 6. The Masculinization of the Western -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.