Skillful and graceful trick rider Faye Blesing and her Palomino horse Flash raced by excited fans at…
Author Archives: Chris Enss
Chris Enss is a New York Times Bestselling author who writes about women of the Old West.
Wild Women Of The West: Fox Hastings
Cowboy Bill Pickett is credited with introducing the sport of bulldogging to rodeos in 1907. I…
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Wild Women Of The West: Claire Belcher Thompson
When the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West show paraded down one of the main thoroughfares in Kans…
Wild Women Of The West: Mary Fields
A well-traveled trail rests peacefully between the rich forested hillsides around the town of Cascad…
Wild Women Of The West: Pearl Biron
The crowd attending the John Robinson’s Circus in Clarksdale, Mississippi, swelled around the rode…
Wild Women Of The West: Jessie Hayman
“She had the face and figure of an empress, and the poise and manner of one as well.” – The Grand Duke of Russia’s description of Jessie Hayman, 1908
Wild Women Of The West: Jennie Rogers
“Each afternoon at about three o’clock, the August lawmakers would retire to Jennie Rogers’ palace of joy on Market Street and there disport themselves in riotous fashion…” – The Rocky Mountain News, 1890
Wild Women Of The West: Kitty LeRoy
“Spirits of the good, the fair and beautiful, guard us through the dreamy hours. Kinder ones, but, perhaps less dutiful, keep the places that once were ours.” – Poetic editorial in memory of the slain Kitty LeRoy from the Black Hills Daily Times, 1883
Wild Women Of The West: Madam Eleanora Dumont
Historians believe the scandalous Eleanora Dumont was one of the first madams to arrive in Deadwood …
COWGIRL Iconic: Fanny Sperry Steele
“If there aren’t any horses in heaven, I don’t want to go,” World Champion Saddle Bronc …
Wild Women Of The West: Madam May Brown And The Tragic Life & Death Of Maud Lee
Ottoman and Johanne Gotsch never knew what led their daughter Anna to a life of prostitution in the …
Wild Women Of The West: Thelma Campbell
Minnie Henderson, a prostitute working at Madam Annie Woods’ brothel in Lead, South Dakota, crawle…
Wild Women Of The West: Madam Belle Haskell And The Demise Of Maggie Broadwater
From the beginning, there was a section of Deadwood into which respectable citizens would seldom ven…
Wild Women Of The West: Maggie McDermott
Maggie McDermott peered into the grimy windows of the Mascott Saloon and eyed the faces huddled arou…
Wild Women Of The West: Madam Mollie Johnson
Among the spectators attending the baseball game at Fort Meade in mid-June 1879 between the Hard Scr…
Wild Women Of The West: Madam Dora DuFran
Judge Harold R. Hanley hammered the striking block with his gavel after announcing the verdict the j…
COWGIRL Iconic: Berenice Dossey
In early February 1941, more than twenty-five hundred people jammed into the stadium to watch the ex…
Wild Women Of The West: Frieda Fligelman & Belle Fligelman Winestine
Jeannette Rankin has a statue in Montana’s capitol and in Washington D.C.’s Statuary Hall, but t…