pt. 1. Myths: Through women's eyes: a new view of the West / Susan Armitage --
The way we weren't: images of women and men in cowboy art / Corlann Gee Bush --
Illusion and illumination: visual images of American Indian women in the West / Patricia Albers and William James --
pt. 2. Meetings: The role of native women in the creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1830 / Sylvia Van Kirk --
Beyond princess and squaw: army officers' perceptions of Indian women / Sherry L. Smith --
Sharing bed and board: cohabitation and cultural difference in central Arizona mining towns, 1863-1873 / Susan L. Johnson --
pt. 3. Emotional continuities: Laura, Ma, Mary, Carrie, and Grace: Western women as portrayed by Laura Ingalls Wilder / Kathryn Adam --
Violence against women: power dynamics in literature of the Western family / Melody Graulich --
Lena Olmstead and Oscar Phillips: love and marriage / Elizabeth Hampsten --
pt. 4. Coming to terms with the West: Women as workers, women as civilizers: true womanhood in the American West / Elizabeth Jameson --
Homesteading in northeastern Colorado, 1873-1920: sex roles and women's experience / Katherine Harris --
Beyond baby doe: child rearing on the mining frontier / Elliott West --
The private lives of public women: prostitution in Butte, Montana, 1878-1917 / Mary Murphy --
Essential servants: immigrant domestics on the Canadian prairies, 1885-1930 / Norma J. Milton --
Waitresses in the trans-Mississipp West: "pretty waiter girls," Harvey girls, and union maids / Mary Lee Spence --
pt. 5. Expanding our focus: Distinctions in Western women's experience: ethnicity, class, and social change / Rosalinda Méndez González --
The "girls" from Syracuse: sex role negotiations of Kansas women in politics, 1887-1890 / Rosalind Urbach Moss --
Networking on the frontier: the Colorado Women's Suffrage Movement, 1876-1893 / Carolyn Stefanco --
The myth of the urban village: women, work, and family among Italian-Americans in twentieth century California / Micaela di Leonardo --
The impact of "Sun Belt industrialization" on Chicanas / Patricia Zavella --
Western women's history: a challenge for the future / Suzan Shown Harjo.