Description
Book SynopsisAmerican lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Based on the author's traveling sixty thousand miles in the American West and talking with more than a hundred authentic cowgirls running ranches and performing in rodeos, this book situates the cowgirl in history and literature.
Trade Review"Let Jordan introduce you to these women. You won’t encounter them anywhere else. Every one of them is worth knowing. Their lives are heroic in the most literal sense of the word. Cowgirls are American originals."—
Los Angeles Times"Valuable for its sympathetic portrait of western life and western women, for the historical anecdotes that enliven its pages and for its nitty-gritty detail about ranch life. To read it is to share its author's affectionate regard for a vanishing way of life."—
San Francisco Chronicle"An absorbing portrait of the highly independent, often colorful women who have long stood next to the men of the American West."—
Publishers Weekly
