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Rough and ready the Old West may have been, but the women who settled the country were tough enough to meet the challenge. Across the dusty prairies came preachers and housewives, dance-hall girls and ranchers. Some of them kept diaries; others wrote and published their memoirs. Through 11 biographies, Underwood tells about the women behind the men--as in the case of Josephine Earp--and about women in their own right (like Carrie Nation). From Texas to the Dakotas, from Alaska to L.A., they provided a lot of love. Now the women of the West may reap their measure of the glory. Bibliography. ~--Cynthia Ogorek