Texas Women and Ranching

On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities
Explores a variety of roles women played on the western ranch. The essays here cover a range of topics, from early Tejana business women and Anglo philanthropists to rodeos and fence-cutting range wars. This book is a major contribution to several fields – Texas history, western history, and women’s history – that are beginning to converge.
The realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from talestall or trueof cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and innovative way of understanding the past, new generations of scholars are rethinking the once-familiar settings of the past. In doing so, they reveal that women not only exercised agency in otherwise constrained env