Victoria Lamont - Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936 (review) - Legacy 23:2 Legacy 23.2 (2006) 212-213 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Victoria Lamont University of Waterloo Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900–1936. By Cathryn Halverson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 240 pp. $45.00. During the heydey of open-range cattle-ranching in the late nineteenth-century American West, calves who escaped branding during the roundups, and whose ownership was thus unknown, were called mavericks. This is the metaphor Cathryn Halverson invokes in Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900–1936 to characterize three remarkable authors whose autobiographies fall outside of current western American literary historical frameworks.