Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. InAcross God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters
Documents the physical and mental punishment of female prisoners in the West between 1865 and 1915, drawing on prison records and the women's own words to analyze the role of gender, race, class, and
"A respected retired criminologist picks up a pistol and shoots his wife five times as she rocks on her plantation home's gallery." The wife "miraculously survived" and gives this account.
