Chris Enss Contributions COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Bessie Efner Twenty-four-year-old Dr. Bessie Efner peered through the dusty windows of the passenger car on the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad at the endless Wyoming prairie. Sagebrush and buffalo grass dotted the landscape. The tough, tenacious plants emitted a peculiar, pungent odor that wafted through the opened windows next to the seats across the aisle. As... COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Lucy Hobbs A steady parade of distinguished, well-dressed men and women marched into a massive community center and joined the crowd already in the building making their ways from one elaborate exhibit to another. The attendance at the annual Ohio Mechanics’ Institute Fair in Cincinnati on September 19, 1860, was overwhelming. A small orchestra serenaded visitors as... COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Eliza Stewart Boyd A half-dozen rosy-cheeked children, bundled in heavy coats and wearing woolen hats and gloves, tromped over the frozen ground toward the new schoolhouse in Laramie, Wyoming, on February 15, 1869. Their teacher, thirty-six-year-old Eliza Stewart, happily greeted the pupils as they hurried into the building. Their cold lips stretched into a smile as she ushered... COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Tessie Wall A parade of horse-drawn carriages deposited fashionably dressed San Francisco citizens at the entrance of the Tivoli Theatre. A handsome couple, holding hands and cooing as young lovers do, emerged from one of the vehicles. A figure across the street, hidden in the shadows of an alleyway, eyed the pair intently. Once the couple entered... COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Winema Mrs. Frank “Tobey” Riddle, better known as Winema, was a mediator for the Modoc people, other Indian tribes in the area of Klamath Lake, Oregon, and the United States Army in early 1878. With her skills she was able to negotiate treaties that kept the land of her ancestors in peace. Whenever that peace was... COWGIRL Editorial COWGIRL Iconic: Queen Mary Duncan Rodeo fans at the Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1928 were thrilled by the prospect of meeting the cowgirl actress chosen to reign over the prestigious event. Queen Mary Duncan had entertained motion picture audiences with her horseback riding skills in the popular silent films Four Devils and The River. Audience members hoped she would... COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Winnemucca The sound of children singing hymns filled the early morning sky above Natchez Winnemucca’s ranch just outside Lovelock, Nevada. The sun overhead was already a scorching ball of fire, and more than two dozen students took shelter from the ever-rising orb under a well-built, brush arbor. A steady breeze, like a hearth from a furnace,... COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Maggie Howard The dark clouds that hovered over a crude trail in Yosemite Valley in May 1899 broke loose with a torrent of rain that nearly knocked Paiute Indian Maggie “Ta-bu-ce” Howard and her fourteen-year-old niece, May Tom, off the rocky path where they walked. Mighty claps of thunder echoed around the majestic granite walls of Yosemite... COWGIRL LIFE Wild Women Of The West: Lozen Among Geronimo’s band of thirty-six loyal warriors was an unassuming medicine woman named Lozen. The petite, plain woman dressed like the braves she fought with and the courageous renegade who led the group would not make a move without her wise council. It was her divine power that kept Geronimo and his followers out of... << 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … 63 >>