Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of an often overlooked subgenre of the Western novel - of how some of the popular women writers of the time - including B.M. Bower, Caroline Lockhart, Vingie E. Roe, Honore Willsie Morrow and Katharine Newlin Burt - both appealed to the prejudices of the mass market on a superficial level, but also managed to subvert the traditional images by downplaying violence, portraying active rather than passive heroines, etc. Notes, bibliography, index. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-826315690.