both sides now: writing the edges of the north american west

SHEILA MCMANUS is professor of history at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the author of The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands and Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the US West and coeditor of One Step Over the Line: Towards a History of Women in the North American West and The Line Crossed Us: New Directions in Critical Border Studies.