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1. Lillian Schlissel

   Author of Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey, Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives
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2. Linda K. Kerber

   Author of Women's America: Refocusing the Past, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, U.S. History As Women's History: New Feminist Essays
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3. Dee Alexander Brown

   Author of The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The American West
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4. Kenneth L. Holmes

   Author of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849, Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850, Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
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5. Joanna Stratton

   Author of Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
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6. Linda Peavy

   Author of Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier, Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier, Frontier Children
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7. Nancy F. Cott

   Author of The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation, Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women
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8. Susan Armitage

   Author of The Women's West
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9. Elinore Pruitt Stewart

   Author of Letters of a Woman Homesteader
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10. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

    Author of Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
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11. Cathy Luchetti

    Author of Women of the West
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12. Gail Collins

    Author of America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
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13. Ruth Barnes Moynihan

    Author of So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (Women in the West)
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14. Nancy Woloch

    Author of Women and The American Experience: A Concise History, Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600 - 1900
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15. Sara M. Evans

    Author of Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
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16. Mary Beth Norton

    Author of Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essays, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
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17. Robert M. Utley

    Author of The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, Indian Wars
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18. Marylynn Salmon

    Author of Women and the Law of Property in Early America
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19. John Mack Faragher

    Author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie
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20. Bernard DeVoto

    Author of Across the Wide Missouri, The Year of Decision: 1846
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21. Antonia Fraser

    Author of The Weaker Vessel
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22. Julie Roy Jeffrey

    Author of Frontier Women: "Civilizing" the West? 1840-1880
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23. Vicki Ruíz

    Author of Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History [1st edition]
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24. Anne Seagraves

    Author of Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West (Women of the West), Women Who Charmed the West (Women of the West), High-Spirited Women of the West
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25. Susan Faludi

    Author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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26. Agnes Morley Cleaveland

    Author of No Life for a Lady
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27. Carol Hymowitz

    Author of A History of Women in America
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28. Mary Wollstonecraft

    Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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29. Hampton Sides

    Author of Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
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30. Isabella Lucy Bird

    Author of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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31. Marian Perales

    Author of Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West
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32. Gerda Lerner

    Author of The Creation of Patriarchy, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolition
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33. Germaine Greer

    Author of The Whole Woman, The Female Eunuch
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34. Naomi Wolf

    Author of The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
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35. Cokie Roberts

    Author of Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
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36. Susan G. Butruille

    Author of Women's Voices from the Western Frontier (Women of the West), Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail: The Times that Tried Women's Souls and a Guide to Women's History Along the Oregon Trail (Women of the West)
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37. Jo Freeman

    Author of Women: A Feminist Perspective
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38. Bonnie S. Anderson

    Author of History of their own : Women in Europe from prehistory to the present, A history of their own : Women in Europe from prehistory to the present
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39. Eleanor Flexner

    Author of Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States
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40. Joan Swallow Reiter

    Author of The Old West: The Women
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41. Barbara Ehrenreich

    Author of For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
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42. Patricia Nelson Limerick

    Author of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, Trails: Toward a New Western History
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43. Simone de Beauvoir

    Author of The Second Sex [abridged English translation by H. M. Parshley]
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44. Wallace Stegner

    Author of Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
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45. Geoffrey C. Ward

    Author of The West: An Illustrated History
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46. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

    Author of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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47. Evan S. Connell

    Author of Son of the Morning Star
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48. Stephen E. Ambrose

    Author of Undaunted Courage, Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors, Lewis & Clark
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49. Carolyn Niethammer

    Author of Daughters of the Earth
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50. Dorothy Wickenden

    Author of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
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