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From: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Date: 20050101
Author:Clayton, John

For much of the twentieth century, Westerns were considered a male genre. Their heroes, authors, and themes were masculine. Recently, the study of gender issues in western novels has become a fruitful academic discipline, and discussions of the genre have begun to include female authors of Westerns, especially those from the early days of the genre's development. During that time, writers such as Mary Hallock Foote, Frances McElrath, and B. M. Bower (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair) created their own visions of frontier society. Today, scholars rightly examine how these women structured the ...

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