Contents:
1. Martin, Calvin Ethnohistory: A Better Way to Write Indian History, Western Historical Quarterly 9 [1978]
2. White, Richard The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Journal of American History 65 [1978]
3. Reid, John Phillip Restraints of Vengeance: Retaliation-in-Kind and the Use of Indian Law in Old Oregon Country, Oregon Historical Quarterly 95 [1994]
4. Riley, Glenda Frontierswomen's changing Views of Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West, Montana 34 [1984]
5. Simmons, William S Indian Peoples of California, California History 76 [1997]
6. Asher, Brad Their Own Domestic Difficulties: Intra-Indian Crime and White Law in Western Washington Territory, 1873-1889, Western Historical Quarterly 27 [1996]
7. deGraff, Lawrence B Recognition, Racism and Reflections on the Writing of Western Black History, Pacific Historical Review 44 [1975]
8. Taylor, Quintard Blacks and Asians in A White City: Japanese Americans and African Americans in Seattle, 1890-1940, Western Historical Quarterly [1991]
9. Butler, Anne M Still in Chains: Black Women in Western Prisons, 1865-1910, Western Historical Quarterly 20 [1989]
10. Haywood, C Robert No Less A Man: Blacks in Cow Town Dodge City, 1876-1886, Western Historical Quarterly 19 [1988]
11. Zhu, Liping Chinaman's Chance on the Rocky Mountain Frontier, Montana 45 [1995]
12. Culley, John J World War II and a Western Town: The Internement of Japanese Railroad Workers of Clovis, New Mexico, Western Historical Quarterly 13 [1982]
13. Hurtado, Albert L Hardly A Farmhouse - A Kitchen Without Them: Indian and White Households on the California Borderland Frontier in 1860, Western Historical Quarterly 13 [1982]
14. Gonzalez, Gilbert G and Raul Fernandez Chicano History: Transcending Cultural Models, Pacific Historical Review 63 [1994]
15. Woolsey, Ronald C Rites at Passage? Anglo and Mexican-America Contrasts in a Time of Change: Los Angeles 1860-1870, Southern California Quarterly 69 [1987]
16. Underwood, Grant Re-visioning Mormon History, Pacific Historical Review 55 [1986]

Contents:
1. Wunder, John R What's Old About the New Western History? Part 3: Law, Western Legal History 10 [1997]
2. Reid, John Phillip Some Lessons of Western Legal History, Western Legal History 1 [1988]
3. Wunder, John R Chinese in Trouble: Criminal Law and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier, Western Historical Quarterly 17 [1986] 4. Fritz, Christian G Popular Sovereignty, Vigilantism, and the Constitutional Right of Revolution, Pacific Historical Review 63 [1994]^l 5. Woolsey, Ronald C Crime and Punishment: Los Angeles County, 1850-1856, Southern California Quarterly 61 [1979]
6. Dale, Lyle A Rough Justice: Felony Crime and the Superior Court in San Luis Obispo County, 1880-1910, Southern California Quarterly 76 [1994]
7. Stanley, John J Bearers of the Burden: Justices of the Peace, Their Courts and the Law, in Orange County, California, 1870-1907, Western Legal History 5 [1992]
8. Wunder, John R The Chinese and the Courts in the Pacific Northwest: Justice Denied? Pacific Historical Review 52 [1983] 9. Pisani, Donald J Enterprise and Equity: A Critique of Western Water Law in the Nineteenth Century, Western Historical Quarterly 18 [1982]
10. Ebright, Malcolm The San Joaquin Grant: Who Owned the Common Lands? A Historical-Legal Puzzle, New Mexico Historical Review 57 [1982]
11.Salyer, Lucy Captives of Law: Judicial Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, 1891-1905, Journal of American History 76 [1989]
12. McKnight, Joseph W Protection of the Family Home from Seizure by Creditors: The Sources and Evolution of a Legal Principle, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 86 [1983]
13. Bakken, Gordon Morris Law and Legal Tender in the West, Southern California Quarterly 62 [1980]
14. Bakken, Gordon Morris The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890 Part I:1850-1866, Southern California Quarterly 63 [1981]
15. Bakken, Gordon Morris The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890 Part II:1867-1880,Southern California Quarterly 63 [1981]
16. Bakken, Gordon Morris The Development of Mortgage Law in Frontier California, 1850-1890 Part III:1880-1890, Southern California Quarterly 63 [1981]
17. Schuele, Donna C Community Property Law and the Politics of Married Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century California, Western Legal History 7 [1994]
18. Petrik, Paula Send the Bird and Cage: The Development of Divorce Law in Wyoming,1868-1900, Western Legal History 6 [1993]

Contents:
1. Nugent, Walter Where is the American West?, Montana 42 [1992]
2. Limerick, Patricia Nelson Disorientation and Reorientation: The American Landscape Discovered from the West, Journal of American History 79 [1992]
3. Steiner, Michael From Frontier to Region: Frederick Jackson Turner and the New Western History, Pacific Historical Review 64 [1995]
4. Aron, Stephen Lessons in Conquest: Towards A Greater Western History, Pacific Historical Review 63 [1994]
5. Riley, Glenda Writing, Teaching and Revealing Wester Historythrough intersections and Viewpoints, Pacific Historical Review [1993]
6. Ridge, Martin The American West: From Frontier to Region, New Mexico Historical Review 64 [1989]
7. Flores, Dan The Rocky Mountain West: Fragile Space, Diverse Place, Montana 45 [1995]
8. Wrobel, David M The View from Philadelphia, Pacific Historical Review 67 [1998]
9. Hyde, Anne F Nothing New Under the Sun: Continuities in the West, Pacific Historical Review 67 [1998]
10. Scharff, Virginia Honey, I Shrunk the West, Pacific Historical Review 67 [1998]
11. Malone, Michael P Beyond the Last Frontier: Toward A New Approach to Western American History, Western Historical Quarterly 20 [1989]
12. Boag, Peter G Overlanders and the Snake River Region: A Case Study of Popular Landscape Perception in the Early West, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 84 [1993]
13. Nash, Gerald D European Images of America, Montana 42 [1992]
14. Worster, Donald New West, True West: Interpreting the Region's History, Western Historical Quarterly 18 [1987]

Contents:
1. Armitage, Susan Women and Men in Western History: A Stereoptical Vision, Western Historical Quarterly 16 [1985]
2. Castaneda, Antonio I Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics and Decolonization of History, Pacific Historical Review 61 [1992]
3. Scharff,Virginia Else Surely We Shall All Hang Separately: The Politics of Western Women's History, Pacific Historical Review 61 [1991]
4. deGraff, Lawrence B Race, Sex, Religion: Black Women in the American West, 1850-1920, Pacific Historical Review 49 [1980]
5. Wunder, John R What's Old About the New Western History:Race and Gender, Part 1, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 85 [1994] 6. Riley, Glenda American daughters: Black Women in the West, Montana 38 [1988]
7. Deutsch, Sarah Women and Intercultural Relations: The Case of Hispanic New Mexico and Colorado, Signs^n 12 [1987]
8. Fellman, Anita Clair Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: The Politics of a Mother-Daughter Relationship, Signs 15 [1990]
9. Jameson, Elizabeth Toward A Multicultural History of Women in the Western United States, Signs 13 [1988]
10. Gullet, Gayle Women Progressives and the Politics of Americanization in California, 1915-1920, Pacific Historical Review 64 [1995]
11. Anderson, Karen Work, Gender and Power in the American West, Pacific Historical Review 61 [1992]
12. Smith, Sherry L Single Women Homesteaders: The Perplexing Case of Elinor Pruitt Stewart, Western Historical Quarterly 22 [1991]
13. Castenada, Antonia Engendering the History of Alta, California, 1769-1848, California History 76 [1997]
14. Mercier, Laurie K We Are Women Irish: gender, Class, Religion and Ethnic Identity in Anaconda, Montana, Montana 44 [1994]
15. Ichioka,Yuji Amerika Madeshiko: Japanese Immigrant Women in the United States, 1900-1924, Pacific Historical Review 49 [1980]
16. Gordon, Sara Barringer The Liberty of Self-Degradation: Polygamy, Woman Suffrage and Consent in Nineteenth Century America, Journal of American History 83 [1996]
17. Bakken, Gordon Morris Constitutional Convention Debates in the West: Racism, Religion and Gender, Western Legal History 3 [1990]

Contents:
1. White, Richard American Environmental History: The Development of a New Historical Field, Pacific Historiacal Review 54 [1985]
2. Pisani, Donald J Deep and Troubled Waters: A New Field of Western History?, New Mexico Historical Review 63 [1988]
3. Hundley, Jr., Norris Water and the West in Historical Imagination, Western History Quarterly 27 [1996]
4. Pisani, Donald J State v. Nation: Federal Reclamation and Water Rights in the Progressive Era, Pacific Historical Review 51 [1982]
5. Bunting, Robert The Environment and Settler Society in Western Oregon, Pacific Historical Review 64 [1995]
6. Dunlap, Thomas American Wildlife Policy and Environmental Ideology: Poisoning Coyote, 1939-1972, Pacific Historical Review 55 [1986]
7.Rohe, Randall Man and the Land: Mining Impact in the Far West, Arizona and the West 28 [1986]
8. Bakken, Gordon Morris Was There Arsenic In the Air? Montana 41 [1991]
9. Bakken, Gordon Morris American Mining Law and the Environment: The Western Experience, Western Legal History 1 [1988]
10. Huggard, Christopher J Mining and the Environment: The Clean Air Issue in New Mexico, 1960-1980, New Mexico Historical Review 69 [1994]
11. Alexander, Thomas G From Rule of Thumb to Scientific Range Management: The Case of the Intermountain Region of the Forest Service, Western Historical Quarterly 18 [1987]
12. Harvey, Mark W T Echo Park, Glen Canyon and the Postwar Wilderness, Pacific Historical Review 60 [1991]
13. Cowdrey, Albert W Pioneering Environmental Law: The Army Corps of Engineers and the Refuse Act, Pacific Historical Review 44 [1975]
14. Orsi, Richard J Railroads and Water in the Arid Far West: The Southern Pacific Company as a Pioneer Water Developer, California History 70 [1991]
15. Orsi, Richard J Restoring the Common to the Goose: Citizen Activism and the Protection of the Californian Coastline, 1964-1982, Southern California Quarterly 278 [1996]

Contents:
1.Luckingham, Bradford The American Southwest: An Urban View, Western Historical Quarterly 15 [1984]
2. Abbott, Carl Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century, Western Historical Quarterly 23 [1992]
3. Lotchin, Roger W California Cities and the Hurricane of Change: World War II in the San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego Metropolitan Areas, Pacific Historical Review 63 [1994]
4. Abbott, Carl The Urban West and the Twenty-first Century, Montana 43 [1993]
5. Cherney, Robert W City Commercial, City Beautiful, City Practical: The San Francisco Visions of William C Ralsten, James D Phelan and Michael M O'Shaugnessy, California History 53 [1994/5]
6. Barth, Gunther Demopiety: Speculations on Urban Beauty, Western Scenery and the Discovery of the American Cityscape, Pacific Historical Review 52 [1983]
7. Lotchin, Roger W World War II and Urban California: City Planning and the Transformation Hypothesis, Pacific Historical Review 62 [1993]
8. Luebke, Frederick C Ethnic Group Settlement on the Great Plains, Western Historical Quarterly 8 [1977]
9. Philp, Kenneth R Stride Toward Freedom: The Relocation of Indians to Cities, 1952-1960, Western Historical Quarterly 16 [1985]
10. West, Elliot Heathers and Angels: Childhood in the Rocky Mountain Mining Towns, Western Historical Quarterly 14 [1983]
11. Shoemaker, Nancy Urban Indians and Ethnic Choices: American Indian Organizations in Minneapolis, 1920-1950, Western Historical Quarterly 19 [1988]
12. Rydell, Robert W Visions of Empire: International Expositions in Portland and Seattle, 1905-1909, Pacific Historical Review 52 [1983]
13. Davis, Clark From Oasis to Metropolis: Southern California and the Changing Context of American Leisure, Pacific Historical Review 61 [1992]

The period 1870-1958 was revolutionary in the lives of women. Society's shifting perceptions of women and their role were apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men analyses eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder in this period to identify the intersections of media, law, and gender in California. The fascinating details of these murder trials, documented in court records and embellished newspaper coverage, mirrored the changing public image of women. Most women and their attorneys relied on gendered stereotypes and language to create their defence and sometimes to leverage their status in a patriarchal system. Those who could successfully dress and act the part of the victim were most often able to win the sympathy of the jury. Gender mattered. And though the norms shifted over time, the press, attorneys, and juries were all informed by contemporary gender stereotypes.

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