Re-dressing America's frontier past / Peter Boag.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-347) and index.

Introduction: a trip along the Pike's Peak Express: cross-dressers and America's frontier past -- 1. "Females in male attire, and males in petticoats": remembering cross-dressers in western American and frontier history -- "Known to all police west of the Mississippi" : disrobing the female-to-male cross-dresser -- "I have done my part in the winning of the West" : unveiling the male-to-female cross-dresser -- 2. "The story of the perverted life is not attractive": making the American West and the frontier heteronormative -- "And love is a vision and life is a lie" : the daughters of Calamity Jane -- "He was a Mexican" : race and the marginalization of male-to-female cross-dressers in Western history -- "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.