Gender roles in "The Gift of the Cochise" and "The Lost Sister"

In both “The Gift of The Cochise” and “The Lost Sister” there are very strong women. In The Gift of the Cochise by Louis L’Amour Angie stays at home while her husband is out travelling. She must protect her home from the attacks from the Apache's. Cochise does not imagine that a woman can do this alone. Cochise told Angie “You fight well... You have killed my young men” (p. 271) showing that Angie is a strong woman as she fights alone. In The Lost Sister by Dorothy M. Johnson, Bessie gets captured by a Native American tribe. She later gets rescued by her family, but she wants to live the…