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Wild Women Of The West: Emma Walter

January 2, 2020
The Olympic Club Amphitheatre in New Orleans was filled to overflowing on January 14, 1891.  Among the enthusiastic crowd that had converged on the scene was Bat Masterson, the charming, always well-dressed, part-time lawman, pugilist and sportswriter.  He sat closely to a twenty-four-square-foot boxing ring in the center of a massive room, under a bank...

Wild Women Of The West: Mary Jane Wadams

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December 18, 2019
Mary Jane Wadams, with her husband Wilson and their young family, came to Bannack, Montana, during the gold rush days of the 1860s.  She was the first white woman to settle in the little mining town and she made it her home when Montana was a very raw country. Pioneer life did something to its...

Wild Women Of The West: Belle Starr

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December 10, 2019
Belle Starr checked to make sure the pair of six-guns she was carrying was loaded before she proceeded across a dusty road toward a saloon just outside Fort Dodge, Kansas. When she reached the tavern, she peered over the top of the swinging doors of the establishment and carefully studied the room and its seedy...

Wild Women Of The West: Pearl Hart

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December 3, 2019
The stage driver slammed his foot against the brake lever and hauled back on the reins, yanking the team to a jerking, but quick halt.  He stared, jaw agape, into the steady barrels of a Navy .36 and a Colt .45. Behind the guns stood a hefty man twirling a black handlebar mustache and another...

Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Winnemucca

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October 29, 2019
In the history of the Indians, she and Pocahontas will be the principal female characters, and her singular devotion to her race will no doubt be chronicled as an illustration of the better traits of the Indian character.  —San Francisco Call, January 1885 The Bannock War and the Army Territorial Enterprise, June 5, 1878:  We...

Wild Women Of The West: Winema

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October 14, 2019
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...

Wild Women of the West: Era Gertrude Chinn

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September 3, 2019
The discovery of gold in California in 1849, sparked a raging fever in thousands of Argonauts hoping to strike it rich. Among the flood of fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands that ventured west were mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives. Although they were few in number, women shoveled and picked through tons of gravel working shoulder...

Wild Women of the West: Ethel Bush Berry

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August 27, 2019
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...

Wild Women of the West: Dale Evans

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August 20, 2019
Dale Evans was one of Republic Pictures most popular western stars.  The unlikely celluloid cowgirl, western star starred in tandem with singing cowboy Roy Rogers in most of her thirty-eight films and two television series.  The undisputed Queen of the West was born Frances Octavia Smith on October 31, 1912, Uvalde, Texas. In her words,...
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