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Wild Women of the West: Oregon Mare and Grizzly Bear

May 28, 2019
Two of the most ferocious dance-hall girls in Alaska’s gold rush region in 1898, were Oregon Mare and Grizzly Bear.  Neither could be described as pretty; Grizzly’s appearance was really fearsome because she had one eye gouged out in a fight.  The continued presence of these two in the dance halls was due to the...

Wild Women of the West: Cattle Kate

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May 21, 2019
Legends has it that “Cattle Kate” (Ella Watson), who was twenty-seven and beginning to show a few signs of wear and tear, told friends she was going to pull up stakes and set up a crib in another town, since Cheyenne was no longer easy pickings.  “There’s no use pulling the wool over my own...

Wild Women of the West: Antoinette Adams

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May 14, 2019
The manager of the Melodeon Theatre in Virginia City, Nevada, placarded every cliff and signboard on Sun Mountain with posters announcing the coming of Antoinette Adams, the first actress to appear in the town. Enthusiasm was boundless as the red-letter day approached, and on opening night, every bench, corner, and windowsill of the Melodeon was...

Wild Women of the West: Pauline Cushman

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May 7, 2019
One of the most glamorous and perhaps most tragic of the “glamour girls” of the West was the beautiful Pauline Cushman, who during the Civil War served as a Union spy.  Her pictures show she possessed a gypsylike beauty, with long black hair, and her voice was likened to that of a lark. Pauline was...

Wild Women of the West: Giuseppina Morlacchi

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April 16, 2019
The reflections staring back at ballerina Giuseppina Morlacchi showed a tired, dark-haired woman with bloodshot eyes and a pale face.  She had been up most of the night memorizing lines for a melodrama she was to appear in entitled “The Scouts of the Prairie.” The unique Western show would premiere at a massive amphitheater in...

Wild Women of the West: Ah-Toy

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April 9, 2019
California’s first Chinese settlers, two men and one woman, reached San Francisco in February 1848, aboard the brig Eagle. Sometime later that year, or early in 1849, a second Chinese woman arrived – Ah Toy, a twenty-year old prostitute. Ah Toy’s first crib was a small shanty in an ally off Clay Street just above...

Wild Women of the West: Yukon Dance Hall Girls

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April 2, 2019
Two of the most ferocious dance-hall girls in the Yukon in the 1880s were called the Oregon Mare and the Grizzly Bear.  Neither could be described as pretty; the Grizzly’s appearance was really fearsome because she had had one eye gouged out in a fight.  The continued presence of these two in the dance hall...

Wild Women Of The West: Katie Smith

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March 26, 2019
Deadwood’s first dance hall opened May 1, 1876, with only the owner’s wife and daughter to entertain the customers; six women of more questionable virtue were soon added to the staff. Within a month, two more dance halls opened their doors. These were quickly joined by the variety theaters where a customer might be sensuously...

Wild Women of the West: Lillie Lee

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March 19, 2019
In the book Incidents of Land and Water, written by Mrs. D. B. Bates in 1857, Bates related the story of a woman named Lillie Lee, whose widowed mother brought her to California to seek a home for both of them.  Mrs. Bates shuddered to report that Lillie’s thoughtless mother brought a young, lovely girl...
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