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Birkin bags are soooo yesterday. Collecting expensive horses is the new hobby of the Kardashian/Jenner/West family.  They certainly enjoy the beach vacation trail ride, but the super famous California family also enjoys owning and riding horses. From Kim and Kanye’s herd of 14 majestic horses to Kendall’s “horse girl” self description, are the Kardashian family...

Born in Massachusetts in 1818 and educated at Oberlin College, Lucy Stone lectured widely against slavery and, on behalf of women’s suffrage, helped organize the first national women’s rights convention and the American Woman Suffrage Association and published the influential Woman’s Journal. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1847, Stone became a lecturer for the Massachusetts...

Cowgirls, you may want to add a wagon ride on the Oregon Trail to your bucket list. This amazing ride is one-of-a-kind. Experience what life was like during the mid-1800’s migration from Missouri to Oregon on this 2,200-mile trail. People flocked westward in search of a better life. Their journey wasn’t without hardship though! Soak...

Bitterly cold snow flurries pelted the determined features of twenty-one-year-old Ethel Berry’s face as she drove her dog sled over the Chilkoot Pass in Alaska. Clad in a pair of men’s mackinaw breeches and moccasins, she cracked her whip over the team of animals hauling an enormous mound of supplies behind them. Ethel was slowly...

Every bed in the hospital at the military prison in Louisville, Kentucky was filled with wounded and dying men.  The Civil War had officially ended on April 9, 1865 but rebels still fighting for their lost cause refused to surrender.  Union soldiers pursued renegade Confederates until they were captured or shot. Guerrilla leader William Quantrill...

There are some things in life that are timeless treasures, desired by cowgirls in all walks of life. Among such, the immensity and beauty of nature. What better way to appreciate the wide-open skies, bubbling creeks, floral blankets adorning hillsides, and kaleidoscopes of foliage than with a dream vacation to a dude ranch? Our curated...

According to the February 8, 1885, edition of the Colorado Transcript, when Charley Hatfield was born in 1837, her mother gave her the name of Charlotte.  Her friends and family called her Charley. The circumstances surrounding the infant’s birth were just as controversial as the life she would later lead. Charlotte was the product of...

Wild Bill Hickok had many female admirers in his lifetime, but Agnes Lake Thatcher was the only woman who completely captured his heart. The man known as the “deadliest pistolero in the Old West” often declared to his friends that he preferred being a bachelor. It was a surprise to many when he married a...