Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past

Peter Boag holds the Columbia Chair in the History of the American West at Washington State University. He is the author of Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon and Same Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest, both from UC Press.

"This is fascinating stuff, on many levels... If you're a western history buff especially, you need to outfit yourself with this book soon." Inland Empire Weekly "A extremely valuable work." -- Blake Allmendinger Pacific Northwest Quarterly "Challenging, informative work... Highly recommended." -- S. D. Reschly Choice "A lovely (and at times wry) new volume." -- Daniel Hurewitz Western Historical Qtly "Fascinating... [An] impressive contribution to western and gender history." -- Richard Stott American Historical Review "Because it uncovers a wealth of stories that are overdue for telling, Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past is the ticket. If you're a western history buff especially, you need to outfit yourself with this book soon." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer Dallas Voice "Absorbing and essential reading for those interested in transgender history, the history of sexuality, and the history of the American West." Pacific Historical Review "Innovative... Fascinating... Original and convincing... With a keen scholarly edge, [Boag] successfully breaks down gender and sexual binaries." -- Michael J. Lansing, Augsburg College Jrnl Of American History "The recovery of these accounts over a century later is an important step toward understanding a hitherto hidden aspect of our frontier past." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. A Trip Along the Pike's Peak Express: Cross-Dressers and America's Frontier Past PART ONE. "Females in Male Attire, and Males in Petticoats": Remembering Cross-Dressers in Western American and Frontier History 1. "Known to All Police West of the Mississippi": Disrobing the Female-to-Male Cross-Dresser 2. "I Have Done My Part in the Winning of the West": Unveiling the Male-to-Female Cross-Dresser PART TWO. "The Story of the Perverted Life Is Not Attractive": Making the American West and the Frontier Heteronormative 3. "And Love Is a Vision and Life Is a Lie": The Daughters of Calamity Jane 4. "He Was a Mexican": Race and the Marginalization of Male-to-Female Cross-Dressers in Western History 5. "Death of a Modern Diana": Sexologists, Cross- Dressers, and the Heteronormalization of the American Frontier Conclusion. Sierra Flats and Haunted Valleys: Cross-Dressers and the Contested Terrain of America's Frontier Past Notes Index