| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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Book Review

Wild Women of the Old West. Edited by Glenda Riley and Richard Etulain. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003. xxvi + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $17.95, paper.)

"Wild Women of the Old West": the phrase continues to jump out at us from newsstands, library listings, and bibliographies. The tired phrase works, nevertheless, to catch the attention and further entrench, at least at first glance, the myths, folklore, exaggerations and distortions of the lives of many nineteenth-century American women. In this collection, part of Fulcrum's Notable Westerners Series, editors Riley and Etulain selected nine authors to "explore the real stories behind the personalities and events that continue to shape our national character" (p. vii). How well they succeed depends on great measure on one's definition of "wild women" and on the skills and resources of the authors to bring these women's stories "to life."

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