Women Of The Wild West Sparknotes

The documentary of Women of the Wild West is all about incredibly independent, out of the norm, women from the wild west. Many people had the gold fever, to move west for gold, for opportunity. The trip was a long hard one, in which originally it was thought that women would not go. Women knew the men would be gone for a very long time, which started the common travel of women and children with the men. Women began to receive more credit for themselves because they were forced to travel in this rough terrain and help immensely with the travel itself. The women cooked the food and took care of the children, all the while walking the long commute just the same as the men, as well as helped when things broke down or became disastrous. A lot of the time women making this journey were pregnant, and often lost their child, which just adds a whole other layer to their troubles/ The documentary goes deep into the lives of very well know wild west women, like Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr.
She receives opposition, but that doesn’t stop her. She becomes well known, and eventually sues a newspaper company who prints a bogus story about her, and wins. She is the first white women to shot and travel with the Wild West show, which later would start the title of a cow girl. In her confidence and defiance of societal views, she starts to show how women were equal to men and that they could be payed more, rather than the insignificant amount in comparison to what men were being payed. Calamity Jane was a real women and a legend. She was incredibly adventures, running around with the men, mining gold and fighting in battles. She was loved by all as an incredibly kind woman, as well as a passionate one. Belle Starr was a women related to a lot of crime, she personally doesn’t get involved in crime directly until later in life, where she was then imprisoned for 9