Western Studies: Women’s History Month Bibliography
The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West suggests the following bibliography for titles related to Women’s History Month.
Included are texts on women’s studies, early physicians, art history, craft arts, cowgirl performers, laundresses, botanists, and firearm owners, to list a few.
Ahlberg Yohe, Jill, et al. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. Minneapolis Institute of Art, in association with the University of Washington Press, 2019.
Anderson, Jeffrey D. Arapaho Women’s Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.
Biddle, Flora Miller. The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir. Arcade Publishing, 2012.
Branstetter, Heather. Selling Sex in the Silver Valley: A Business Doing Pleasure. The History Press, 2017.
Briggs, Rachel V., Michaelyn S. Harle, and Lynne P. Sullivan. Mississippian Women. University of Florida Press, 2024.
Collins, Jan MacKell. Behind Brothel Doors: The Business of Prostitution in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma (1860-1940). TwoDot, 2023.
Coolidge, Sherman, et al. The Collected Writings of Sherman and Grace Coolidge. University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Cutright, Patricia J., et al. Native Women: Changing Their Worlds. 7th Generation Native Voices, 2021.
Dallow, Jessica. Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art: 1832 to the Present. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Deutsch, Sarah. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edwards, Tai S. Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power. University Press of Kansas, 2018.
Enss, Chris. The Doctor Was a Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier. TwoDot, 2024.
______. Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad. TwoDot, 2021.
Fienup-Riordan, Ann, Alice Rearden, and Marie Meade. Tengautuli Atkuk: The Flying Parka: The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska. University of Washington Press, 2023.
Flitner, Mary Budd. My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.
Fulkerson, Mary Lee, and Susan E. Mantle. Women Artists of the Great Basin. University of Nevada Press, 2017.
Ganz, Connie Fairfield. Tillie Baldwin: Cowgirl Extraordinaire. Connie Fairfield Ganz, 2020.
Ganz, Connie Fairfield, and Michael Comfort. Lorna Von Tempsky: Maui Cowgirl. Connie Fairfield Ganz, 2023.
Gray, Susan E., and Gayle Ann Gullett. Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women’s History and the North American West. University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Helentjaris, Diane. I Ain’t Afraid: The World of Lulu Bell Parr, Wild West Cowgirl. Alkira Publishing, 2024.
Intimate West: Women Artists in Montana: 1880-1944. University of Montana Press and the Museum of Art & Culture, 2017.
Jager, Rebecca K. Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols. University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.
Kane, Maeve. Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange Across Three Centuries. Cornell University Press, 2023.
Kastner, Carolyn. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist. University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Kazanjian, Howard, and Chris Enss. The Trials of Annie Oakley. TwoDot, 2018.
Lappas, Thomas J. In League against King Alcohol: Native American Women and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1933. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
Lawrence, Jennifer J. Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses, 1802-1876. High Plains Press, 2016.
Marvine, Dee. The Lady Rode Bucking Horses: The Story of Fannie Sperry Steele, Woman of the West. TwoDot, 2016.
Mathes, Valerie Sherer, and Lori Jacobson. Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women’s National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform. University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.
Mullenbach, Cheryl. Stagecoach Women: Brave and Daring Women of the Wild West. TwoDot, 2020.
Pearce, Richard. Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists. University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Prescott, Cynthia Culver. Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
Rhea, John M. A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941. First edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
Robert, Ellen E., Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Erica Ando, and J. Rachel Gustafson. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture. First edition. Norton Museum of Art, 2018.
Romano-Lax, Andromeda. Annie and the Wolves: A Novel. Soho Press, Inc., 2021.
Rudnick, Lois Palken, et al. Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016.
Sevigny, Melissa L. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon. First edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
Smucker, Janneken, et al. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2024.
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred. South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2016.
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Frontier Women and their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Squires, Peter. Gender and Firearms: My Body, My Choice, My Gun. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Thompson, Judy. Women’s Work, Women’s Art: Nineteenth-century Northern Athapaskan Clothing. Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2013.
Von Lintel, Amy, and Bonnie Roos. Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West. First edition. Texas A&M University Press, 2022.
March 2025/Nathan E. Bender, McCracken Research Library.
