Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing about the women of the Old West for more than a dozen years. She has penned more than thirty published books on the subject, including Object: Matrimony, the winner of the Elmer Kelton Award for best nonfiction book of 2013. Chris lives in California.
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'NO WOMEN NEED APPLY.' These four discouraging words of admonition often greeted female physicians looking for jobs in the frontier-era West. Despite the dire need for medical help, it seemed most trappers, miners, and emigrants would rather suffer and d... SEE MORE