JoAnn Chartier is an artist and writer living in California's historic Gold Rush Country. She has worked as both a print and broadcast journalist and as a talk show host, devoting many programs to historical themes.Chris Enss is a standup comic and comedy writer with an extensive background in radio and television. Her educational background includes studies in journalism and cinematography. Her hobbies are historical research and writing about the Old West.

• (1) Introduction (2) The Trapper and the Girl He Left Behind, La Bonté and Mary Brand (3) The Outlaw and the Parson's Daughter, Jim Nugent and Isabella Bird (4) The Bartender and the Soiled Dove, Earnest Marks and Rosa May (5) The Journalist "Yellow Bird" and His Devoted Muse¿. (15) The Sharpshooter and the Sure Shot, Frank Butler and Annie Oakley; Afterword; Bibliography; Index