| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2 | The History Cooperative

*Portraits of Women in the American West*. Edited by Dee Garceau-Hagen. (New York: Routledge, 2005. xii + 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $85.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.)
What do we learn, when we learn of a person? Biographical approaches to history, argues Garceau-Hagen, allow for fully nuanced explorations of the incongruities and the constant play between national, local, and personal contexts in individual lives. This volume presents biographical essays of nine women of the western United States. Each essay, to varying degrees, fulfills the stated aims of the editor: to de-mythologize the West, and to interject essential themes of gender, race and ethnicity, and class into analyses of the historical study of the past.	1
There are two articulated themes in this volume that recur in several essays. First, the New Womanhood ideal affects several women's lives. Second, the life experiences of several women of color focus attention on the ways in which broader historical narratives often sacrifice detailed accounts of women's lives.	. . .

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