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Western History
- A Bloomer Girl on Pikes Peak, Julia Archibald Holmes (Fort Collins Discovery Museum use only)
- Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella L. Bird
- A Visit with the Tomboy Bride; Harriet Backus & Her Friends, Duane A. Smith
- Tomboy Bride, Harriet Fish Backus
- Frontier Teachers: Stories of heroic women of the old West, Chris Enss
- Riding astride: the frontier in women's history, Patricia Riley Dunlap (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
- Magnificent Mountain Women; Adventures in the Colorado Rockies, Janet Robertson
- Those Strenuous Dames of the Colorado Prairie, Nell Brown Propst
- Frontiers of femininity: a new historical geography of the nineteenth-century American West, Karen M. Morin
- The spoilt quilt and other frontier stories: pioneering women of the West, Chris Enss
- How the west was worn: bustles and buckskins on the wild frontier, Chris Enss
- 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, Susan G. Butruille
- New women in the Old West: from settlers to suffragists, an untold American story, Winifred Gallagher
- The Ballad of Frankie Silver, Sharyn McCrumb
- Augusta Tabor: A Pioneering Woman, Betty Moynihan
- Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal, Caroline Bancroft
- Matchless Mine & Baby Doe Tabor, Caroline Bancroft (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
- Honeymaid; Story of Silver Dollar Tabor, Martha Gaby Roberts (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
- Silver Dollar; Story of the Tabors, David Karsner (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
- Silver Queen; Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor, Caroline Bancroft
- Wicked women: notorious, mischievous, and wayward ladies from the Old West, Chris Enss
- Pistol packin' madams : true stories of notorious women of the Old West, Chris Enss
- Ladies of the Lamplight, Kay Reynolds Blair
- Bordellos of Blair Street; The Story of Silverton’s Notorious Red Light District, Allen G. Bird
- Brass Checks and Red Lights, Fred & Jo Mazzulla (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
- Six Racy Madams of Colorado, Caroline Bancroft (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
- Golden Girls of Market Street; Denver Infamous Red Light District, Jacqueline Grannell Couch (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
- Colorado Colorful Characters, Gladys R. Bueler
- Women in pants : manly maidens, cowgirls, and other renegades, Catherine Smith & Cynthia Greig
- Buffalo gals: women of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Chris Enss
- Gilded girls: women entertainers of the old West, JoAnn Chartier & Chris Enss
- African American women of the Old West, Tricia Martineau Wagner
- Colorado Profiles: Men & Women who shaped the Centennial State, John Monnett & Michael McCarthy
- Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West 1865-1890, Anne M. Butler
- Emily: the Diary of a Hardworked Woman, Emily French
- Father Struck it Rich; Story of Thomas F. Walsh, Evelyn Walsh McLean
- Ladies of the Brown: a women's history of Denver's most elegant hotel, Debra Faulkner
- Love lessons from the old West: wisdom from wild women, Chris Enss
- Hearts West: true stories of mail order brides on the frontier, Chris Enss
- Object, matrimony: the risky business of mail-order matchmaking on the frontier, Chris Enss
- Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies, Virginia Cornell
- The doctor wore petticoats: women physicians of the old West, Chris Enss