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At Home Afloat
Women on the Waters
of the Pacific Northwest
ISBN 0-89301-253-x

University of Idaho Press

Nancy Pagh
Women were considered bad luck on boats at sea until far into the 19th century. Nancy Pagh studies women travelers as these prohibitions eased.
Copublished with the University of Calgary Press.
208 pages, 17 photographs, map, index.

$24.95

Elder Tales
Spirited Women Over Sixty Tell Their Stories
ISBN 0-9631258-5-0

Historic Idaho Series

Ruth Garrison and Lorry Roberts
Idaho women over sixty years of age have known many challenges and many joys. They have learned coping skills that have carried them through life. The authors of this book hope the stories included will validate those women, as well as being an inspiration to younger people to learn from them, to set goals, dream big and follow those dreams.
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Soroptimist International of Boise.
6x9, 268 pages, Paper, index.

$12.95

Hobbled Stirrups
0-87004-454-0

Caxton Press

Jane Burnett Smith
Hobbled Stirrups is a no-holds-barred account of the career of one of the few women to ride saddle broncs professionally.
Jane Burnett Smith, a member of a Montana pioneer ranching family, tells how a ride on a steer at age 11, marked the beginning of a journey that took her from one-chute, small town rodeos all the way to Madison Square Garden and Hollywood.
During her quest, Jane experienced the best of the sport—the cowboys, clowns, announcers and other rodeo people who were closer to her than her real family. But she also had to fight to overcome unscrupulous promoters, leering drunks and abusive relationships—the dark side of early day rodeo. More Info.
6 x 9, 440 pages, Paperback, illustrated.

$17.95

Murder, Morality and Madness
Women Criminals in Early Oregon
ISBN 978-0-87004-470-0

Caxton Press

By Diane Goeres-Gardner.
The Victorians that settled the Oregon Territory were quite adept at keeping immoral or bad behavior a secret. Goeres-Gardner does a wonderful job of uncovering their secret past of abuse, neglect and double standards that existed for women criminals.
Turning these pages will allow you to discover what drove normally proper Victorian women to murder. You’ll learn about women’s trials and their all male jurors and the horrid conditions they faced in all male prisons.
Murder, Morality and Madness reveals the hidden history of Oregon's female criminals and the criminal system that brought them to justice.
6x9, 200 pages, Paper, bibliography, index.

$16.95

Nez Perce Women in Transition 1877-1990
ISBN 0-89301-188-6

University of Idaho Press

Caroline James
Unique individual accounts recorded directly from personal interviews with Nez Perce women ranging in age from 20 to 90.
Cloth, 274 pages, 209 photographs, 2 maps

$49.95

On Sidesaddles to Heaven:
The Women of the Rocky Mountain Mission
ISBN 0-87004-384-6

Caxton Press

Laurie Winn Carlson
Veteran author Laurie Winn Carlson analyzes the lives of the first six white women -- missionary wives -- to cross the Rocky Mountains. At a time when a woman's entire fortune and future was tied to the man she married, four of the six women married virtual strangers on short notice, with no financial security. Why did they take such a gamble?
6x9, Paperback, 268 pages, 35 photos, map.
*Also available in leather-bound hardcover edition signed by author.

$19.95

Our Ladies of the Tenderloin
Colorado's Legend in Lace
ISBN 0-87004-444-3

Caxton Press

Linda Wommack
Our Ladies of the Tenderloin is a unique look at life in the oldest profession in early day Colorado. Linda Wommack tells the story of the women who made the night life come alive and brought excitement to the new frontier. Wommack puts the women of the “hog ranches” of the eastern plains and the houses of the Rocky Mountain mining camps into their rightful place in history — as pioneers.
The author brings Colorado’s soiled doves to life through in-depth research and never-before-seen photographs. History and folklore are wrestled apart so readers can focus on the prostitute as a member of frontier society, rather than a mere footnote in accounts of the wild west.

Linda Wommack once again brings Colorado's colorful pioneer past to life in this richly-detailed account of nineteenth-century prostitution. She recreates the underside of boom town life with its colorful cast of sometimes, heroic, often tragic, and always fascinating characters. Here is grassroots history at its best.
-- Paul Andrew Hutton, author of Phil Sheridan and his Army, Professor of History at The University of New Mexico and past president of the Western Writers of America.
6x9, Paperback, 250 pages, illustrated.

$16.95

Walking in Two Worlds
Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path
ISBN 0-87004-450-8

Caxton Press

Nancy M. Peterson
Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their identities in a rapidly changing world.
In an era when most white women had limited opportunities outside the home, these mix-blood women often became nationally recognized leaders in the fight for Native American rights. They took the tools and training whites provided and used them to help their people. They found differing paths — medicine, music, crafts, the classroom, the lecture hall, the stage, the written word — and walked strong and tall.
These women did far more than survive; they extended a hand to help their people find a place in a hard new future.
6x9, Paper, 264 pages, illustrated, index.

$16.95

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