Presents the sensational lives and exploits of nine notorious women from the days of boisterous frontier saloons and high-noon showdowns.

Glenda Riley is Alexander M. Bracken Professor Emeritus of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, in spring 1998 as a Fulbright Scholar and received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, Ireland. Richard Etulain is professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico and the author or editor of more than forty books. Etulain lives in Clackamas, Oregon.