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Wild Women Of The West: Happy Ever After
Business for matrimonial publications between 1870 and 1900, increased substantially whenever storie…
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Wild Women Of The West: Jane Novak
Silent motion-picture actor William S. Hart starred opposite the beautiful and talent actress Jane N…
Wild Women Of The West: Nell O’Day
Nell O’Day, one of the first ladies of B-Westerns, was the spunky, hard riding heroine of thirteen…
Wild Women Of The West: Bessie Barriscale
Between 1914 and 1926, roper, rider, and actress Bessie Barriscale dazzled silent film fans in a ser…
Wild Women Of The West: Victoria Forde
When news that cowgirl and silent film actress, Victoria Forde, had left her husband Western star, T…
Wild Women Of The West: Ruth Roland
Reel cowgirl Ruth Roland portrayed Pearl Marvin in a dozen silent films in The Perils of Pauline ser…
Wild Women Of The West: Gail Davis
Between 1954 and 1957, actress Gail Davis portrayed famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley in the televisi…
Wild Women Of The West: Olive Fuller Golden
When the five-reel Western drama A Knight of the Range premiered in early 1916, critics praised sile…
Wild Women Of The West: Marie Walcamp
Today’s film fans cannot conceive of a time when kids stomped and whistled and cheered when the na…
Wild Women Of The West: Texas Guinan
Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecelia Guinan) was a popular cowgirl star from 1918-1923, who grew up on …
Wild Women Of The West: Senorita Rosalie
A jubilant group of children huddled around a massive color poster affixed to the arena walls of New…
Wild Women Of The West: Mary Anderson
“I intend to play westward, and to appear in the town in which I was born–Sacramento.”
Mary Anderson’s comments to a reporter at the San Francisco Call, 1886
Wild Women Of The West: Lillian Smith
The polite but enthusiastic applause from 40,000 Londoners brought a huge smile to fifteen-year-old …
Wild Women Of The West: Carolina Cotton
Helen Hagstrom is best known for her country and Western swing music and yodeling, as well…
Wild Women Of The West: Dorothy Page
In the late 1930s, entertainer Dorothy Page proved to movie goers that cowgirls were just as capable…
Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Winnemucca
The sound of children singing hymns filled the early morning sky above Natchez Winnemucca’s ranch …
Wild Women Of The West: Eliza Stewart Boyd
A half-dozen rosy-cheeked children, bundled in heavy coats and wearing woolen hats and gloves, tromp…
Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Herring Sorin
“A woman of strong character, she was interested in things worthwhile and gave freely of her time to useful purposes…. She was an expert horsewoman and a lover of outdoor life.”
The Arizona Republic – October 20, 1985