Please allow me to suggest some female role models for you: Belle Starr, Katie Elder, Clara Barton, "Doc" Susy Anderson, Lola Montez, and Annie Armstrong.
The latter you won't find on the internet, but she is one of my favorites - my great-aunt. At 16, she was protecting my great-father's homestead in Oklahoma while he spent a week going to town. The Texas rancher across the Salt Fork of the Red River had his cattle driven over their fields, until Annie shot a few. Then, she scattered the cowboys with several rounds. The next day, the rancher came over, apologized, and eventually married her. A lot of women in the old west were like her