| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. Edited by Sara R. Massey. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. x + 326 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Some nineteenth-century women only imagined the American West. Others, like the sixteen cattle women depicted in Sara R. Massey's edited collection, Texas Women on the Cattle Trails, a volume in the Texas A & M University Press Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, lived lives that directly contributed to the rise of the Texas cattle industry from the late 1860s to the late 1880s. From them we gain not only additional insight about western realities for women, but, equally important, their interpretations of them. Clearly, for example, in trailing cattle up North to railheads and cow towns in Kansas and Colorado in order to make major market connections, cattle women understood that they were interacting with larger processes. At every turn, the many challenges they faced in working with cattle and horses on the Texas frontier served as reminders of their unconventional lives, at least in the eyes of non-westerners. To cattle women, however, this was often a source of self-pride, as was the respect they frequently received from their male cohorts.

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