Project Questions

1. Describe the course of Cousselle’s life.
2. What questions cannot be answered from the available evidence? Where are the gaps in the evidence?
3. How does Cousselle’s life conform to or depart from historians’ interpretations of prostitutes’ lives in the West?
4. Central Question: What does the life of Louisa Cousselle reveal about women in the nineteenth-century trans-Mississippi West?