$8 · Wild West Women: Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels

Wild West Women: Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels by Rosemary Neering Paperback, 2000 (Third Printing 2002), 256 pages Awarded the 2001 Van City Book Prize, this book proves how the west was really won - through the strength and determination of women. The women profiled in the book’s 13 chapters include trappers and hunters, hotel and boarding-house owners, gold prospectors and miners,entertainers and “shady ladies,” artists and writers. Many of the women rebelled against the traditional roles of Victorian women; for these women, the B.C. wilderness offered a refuge from the civilization that had mistreated or condemned them. What emerges from this book is their courage and strength as they struggled to make a living in the frontier communities of the West. See pictures Pickup in Langford Cross posted