At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation, yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women's Historydebunks this myth once and for all by recovering women writers of popular westerns active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Victoria Lamont¿is an associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is a coauthor of¿Judith Merril: A Critical Study.
