With a Doll in One Pocket and a Pistol in the Other: Rebecca Cohen Mayer, 1937-1930, A Memoir, by Kay Goldman.

In 1852, Rebecca Cohen Mayer, a newly-married, 15-year old, Jewish girl, embarked on a journey across the Santa Fe Trail. Although Rebecca's husband, Henry Mayer, had made the trip many times, few women traveled this journey, and perhaps no other female traveled across the Santa Fe Trail without female companions. Yet, Rebecca was the lone woman on a wagon train with 50 drivers, plus her husband, a cook and bookkeeper. Rebecca's story is based partly on her own journal. Filled with excitement, wonder and tragedy, Rebecca's story relates the amazing adventure of an American Jewish woman.

Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp, by Ann Kirschner.

Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp.

For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of the Old West. Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. In this fascinating biography, Ann Kirschner, author of the acclaimed Sala's Gift, brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her tale: a spirited and colorful tale of ambition, adventure, self-invention, and devotion. Reflective of America itself, her story brings us from the post–Civil War years to World War II, and from New York to the Arizona Territory to old Hollywood.

In Lady at the O.K. Corral, you’ll learn how this aspiring actress and dancer—a flamboyant, curvaceous Jewish girl with a persistent New York accent—landed in Tombstone, Arizona, and sustained a lifelong partnership with Wyatt Earp, a man of uncommon charisma and complex heroism.