Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1994
Abstract
When Caroline Lockhart traveled the mere four blocks to her editorial office at the Cody, Wyoming Enterprise, she often rode horseback and wore boots, spurs, and a Stetson. “Clumping and jingling” (Boyett 21 Aug. 1989: A-10), she played in person the two roles she consistently projected in her fiction: exemplar of how a woman with courage, will power, and initiative could attain goals traditionally reserved for men, and preserver of what she considered the most admirable and picturesque elements of Old West culture. During her long and eventful life, she pioneered as a woman reporter, crusaded as an editor, thrived as a rancher—and as an author, wrote seven novels in the formula Western vein. Of these works, “Me—Smith” (1911), The Lady Doc (1912), and The Fighting Shepherdess (1919) are the most provocative, but the other four also deserve rescue from the virtual oblivion into which all seven have fallen.
Recommended Citation
Yates, Norris. Caroline Lockhart. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1994. Digital. Western Writers Series, 116.