Riding, Roping, and Roses

By Judy Sammons

Book Overview

In the old West, around the turn of the century, a few ranchers’ daughters—a brazen few—decided to shake up the establishment a little bit. They put on shocking divided skirts they had stitched up... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932738290
• ISBN13: 9781932738292
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Western Reflections Publishing Company
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Strongly recommended

Judy Buffington Sammons grew up on a ranch in the Ohio Creek Valley country of Gunnison, Colorado where her father and grandfather raised registered Hereford cattle. So Judy writes with a particular expertise in "Riding, Roping, And Roses: Colorado's Women Ranchers" of what Colorado women ranchers have been able to accomplish in a country and a business that was and continues to be dominated by men. Spanning the late 1870s down to the present day, "Riding, Roping, And Roses" features the examples of women drawn from many parts of Colorado. Some of the are obscure while others are well known. What all these women have in common is the success they made of ranching against all odds and expectations -- including their own. "Riding, Roping, And Roses" is strongly recommended to the attention of non-specialist general readers, as well as a unique and welcome addition to academic and community library Women's Studies, Western American History, and Colorado History reference collections and supplemental reading lists.