Washburn, Mims, and Foley: Women Authors Leading the Western Charge
By David Cranmer
July 24, 2015Long before Louis L'Amour, Max Brand, or Zane Grey thought about swinging up into a saddle, women were blazing a trail for the Western story. Even prior to 1902 with Owen Wister’s The Virginian which is widely respected as the novel that put the genre on the map, female authors were far ahead on the…