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Wild Women Of The West: The Busy Bee Club
Members of the Busy Bee Club ran advertisements in newspapers and wrote letters to churches in the east inviting single women to come west…
Wild Women Of The West: Widow Jones
A lively, petite woman with dark hair and dark eyes coaxed a pair of blonde mares pulling a well-used buggy toward a train depot in Taylorsville, Texas…
Wild Women Of The West: Ella Lazinka
Ella Lazinka was an eastern Oregon cowgirl who won the world championship cowgirl relay race at the Pendleton Round-Up in 1912. The following year she returned to defend her crown…
Wild Women Of The West: Josephine Monaghan
Little Joe was not what he seemed to be. In fact, he was not a he at all. But that fact was not revealed until much later…
Wild Women Of The West: Rosa Bonheur
Rosa’s experience with the Wild West Show would influence her painting. Although she never traveled to the United States, she managed to capture the realist of the western setting as if she’d been a part of it…
Wild Women Of The West: Nellie Cashman
Nellie Cashman’s impact on the gold fields of the Old West and the men and women who sought their fortunes in them was well known throughout the West…
Wild Women Of The West: Ellen Clark Sargent
Ellen was a homemaker and mother and active in the Methodist Church. She firmly believed that women could not attain their highest development until they “had the same large opportunities and the same large chance as her brothers have.”
Wild Women Of The West: Calamity Jane
She wore men’s clothing, used colorful language, and drank to excess with male cohorts, beneath the rough exterior was the tender heart of a woman…
Wild Women Of The West: Geronimo’s Wives
Geronimo married seven women, but the loss of his first wife had a profound effect on him.
Wild Women Of The West: Mary Jane Wadams
She learned to handle a gun and ride a horse as well as any of the men and she developed a courage that put theirs to shame.
Wild Women Of The West: Belle Starr
She learned how to chew and spit tobacco, curse, and play cards. She excelled at the games of blackjack and faro. By the time Belle was fifteen she was working several hours at the inn’s tavern either playing the piano or dealing faro.
Wild Women of the West: Era Gertrude Chinn
The discovery of gold in California in 1849, sparked a raging fever in thousands of Argonauts hoping to strike it rich.
Wild Women of the West: Ethel Bush Berry
Alaska’s frigid terrain was “no place for women, but a determined twenty-one-year-old made the dangerous voyage anyway.
Wild Women of the West: Dale Evans
She was one of Republic Pictures most popular western stars and is still known as the Queen of the Cowgirls.