women. In realitw fact is more complicatedrnthan myth. The frontier was a regionrnin which adventurous and optimisticrnempire builders worked tornrecreate the civilizahon of the East b assertingrnand establishing conventional socialrnvalues and customs. It was also arndraw not just for simple outlaws but forrnsocial ones as well—unconstrained soulsrnw ith what today would be described asrncountercultural inclinations in search ofrnelbow room and a greater social relaxahon.rnPearl Hart, the Bandit Queen, belongedrnto the second category of outlawrnmuch more than she did to the first.rnMiss Coleman’s portrait of her shows arnsomewhat self-pitying, at times even selfdramatizing,rnvictim, a forerunner of thernstereotypical Battered Wife of modernrntimes. Abused though she certainly was,rnspousal violence seems to have been arnfurther impetus to Pearl’s outspokenrnfeminism rather than the fundamentalrncause of it.rnColeman’s Pearl Hart is a woman impatientrnnot just of A Woman’s Place inrnSociety but of societ)’ itself: an adventurerrnwhose restlessness was determined notrnbv the condition of her sex but by impulsesrnbasic to her character. On trial forrnher role in the Globe holdup, she deliversrnan impassioned address to the jury:rn”Think about me, separated from myrnchildren. Think about the fairness ofrnyour laws. Women sent to jail for adulter,rnwhile men go free. Women blamedrnfor the fact that their husbands beatrnthem. Women who abandon their childrenrnbecause thev can’t care for them.rnThis is jusHce?” She is acquitted, only tornbe rearrested immediately afterward onrnthe separate charge of stealing thernstagedriver’s .45 pistol and sentenced tornfive years at Yuma.rnThe jacket photo shows a pretty voungrnwoman with short hair and a full (ratherrnthan foul) mouth, slender; wearing pantsrnheld up by embroidered suspenders overrnan open-necked shirt and reading arnnewspaper as she fondles what appearsrnto be a bobcat (but is probably only arnfierce tabby) at her side. The charm ofrnMiss Coleman’s Pearl Hart is not that ofrnan early Betty Friedan but of one of thosernoriginals who pioneered the Americanrnfronder, as well as the less attractive, lessrninteresting, and far more restrictivernAmerican future, in search of the spacernand openness that until recendy at anyrnrate have always spelled freedom for thernAmerican people.rn… 0^r^(ym Gkr^amcl&S/ (odi/taf^&…rnTHE POLITICS OFrnHUMAN NATURErnThomas Flemingrn”Learned, thoughtful, and superblyrnwritten”rn—Robert NisbetrnISBN: 1-56000-693-5 (paper)rn276 pp. $24.95 (Plus $5.50 S&H)rnIVansaction PublishersrnCall: 1-888-999-6778rnThernPokicsrnHumanrnNaturern^’Tomasrn^ ^ rrnPLAGIARISMrnAND THE CULTURE WAR:rnTHE WRITINGS OF MARTINrnLUTHER KING, JR.,rnAND OTHER PROMINENTrnAMERICANSrnTheodore Pappasrn”A work of great seriousness”rn—^John LukacsrnISBN: 0-87319-045-9 (paper)rn212 pp. $16.95 (Plus $2 S&H)rnHallberg PublishingrnCall: 1-800-633-7627rnTHE IMMIGRATIONrnMYSTIQUE: AMERICA’SrnFALSE CONSCIENCErnChilton Williamson, Jr.rn”This is perhaps the mostrnambitious of recent immigrationrnbooks”rn—Peter BrimelowrnISBN: 0-936247-16-9 (paper)rn206 pp. $10 (S&H Included)rnSend check to:rnAICF,P.O.Box525,rnMonterey, VA 24465rnJUNE 1998/41rnrnrn