Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous womens basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 Worlds Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors,Wild Girlsbrings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkla-, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, farmworkers champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs.