We've all heard how the west was won with the help of the Colt 45 and the Winchester and Henry Repeating Rifles, but what you may not have heard was whose hands those guns were in. The women of the west had to be tougher, stronger and more ruthless than the men. They sacrificed greatly for the men who loved them. Follow five of these women through their lives to see how their sacrifices helped tame the wild west.
