Here is a western woman reading a love letter from her beau and she is not forlorn or lonely or yearning. She is taking it in stride evidencing her independence. Our heroine has a rifle, an acknowledgement that the West is still not the most hospitable area imaginable. She is apt to kill a few rattlesnakes or even fend off some marauding bandits if she needs to. The cowboys have been hogging the limelight, it's time to give women a chance, long overdue. - Charles Wysocki