The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the

This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality, especially in relation to race and Indigen

This engaging narrative synthesizes more than 20 years of historical writing on the history of women in the American West. Twenty years after many Western histo

As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families q

Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told