Hell on Horses and Women by Alice Marriott
For more than eighteen months Alice Marriott traveled the cattle country from Wyoming to Florida-visiting, observing, and talking with the women on the ranches and with their men. This book is the story of these women, who share with their men-folks the problems and pleasures of ranch life. It's about the city girl transformed into ranch wife, about the women who were born on ranches, and about their families and the cattle they raise.
She reports on the modern roundups, the cattle sales, the courage of both men and women in the face of a howling blizzard, and the tragedy of a cow with a broken leg. Here they are-the real people of the cattle country and the real things that happen to them in a society in which the man's work is sharply distinguished from the woman's.
And, concludes Miss Marriott, ranch life can be hard and tough and truly hell for the women who live it, but it can also come about as close to Heaven as any life a woman can live today. This is a book for Western enthusiasts, for women everywhere, and for just good reading.