Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As t

These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.

This groundbreaking anthology compiles writing and photography from women who have called the American West home for the past three centuries. These women helpe

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