Texas Women and Ranching (Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation)

Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of Women The realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’st worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history.

As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and innovative way of understanding the past, new generations of scholars are rethinking the once-familiar settings of the past.