Westward Expansion DBQ: Wild West Women- Victims of the time? or rugged outlaws? deserving of their crime
Women include: Belle Starr, Annie Oakley, Pearl Hart, and Calamity Jane
Background:
Women of the American wild west had to be a resourceful lot to cope with the elements that surrounded them: the harsh conditions, lawlessness and living in an age where there were few amenities. Some women took to the gun as readily as any man and others made lives for themselves apart from dignified societ