Presented by Elizabeth Jameson, chair in American Studies, University of Calgary.

As historians added new actors to older histories of rugged frontiersmen and national expansion, they unsettled histories of western frontiers on which trappers, traders, prospectors and cowboys claimed the continent for the United States. In this lecture, Elizabeth Jameson examines how adding women to the historical cast of actors unsettled the story, and how the perspectives of diverse women illuminate new ways to understand western history.

Jameson, the immediate past president of the Western History Association and author of “All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek” and “The Women’s West and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West,” is a leader in writing gender and class into the history of the West.