Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats

by Duncan Aikman

Book Overview

When Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats was first published in 1927, Thomas Beer, with tongue in cheek if not in check, noted the book's underlying theory: "The women of the pioneer epoch--say, from 1840 to 1890--had their feet planted on a resonant drum of man's sexual necessity. They could choose the measure of the dance and the amount of noise to be exacted from creatures in a state of animal tension. Wifehood, polyandry, and an excused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803259115
• ISBN13: 9780803259119
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"