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.

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