All posts tagged "wild women of the west"
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Wild Women Wednesday: Elizabeth Baker
July 19, 2017Elizabeth Baker sat at a small, burl walnut desk, frantically scribbling on thick sheets of paper....
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Wild Women Of The West: Florence “Floy” Hutchings
June 14, 2017Fifteen-year-old Gertrude Hutchings sat on the edge of her sister Florence’s bed, crying. Florence, a pretty...
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Wild Women Of The West: Jeanne Eagels
June 7, 2017Actress Jeanne Eagels was an attractive, petite entertainer with delicate features. According to her friends and...
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Wild Women of the West: Elinore Pruitt
May 31, 2017Elinore Pruitt’s thick, gloved hands unfolded a newspaper advertisement and followed the words written across the...
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Wild Women of the West: Pearl Hart
May 24, 2017Armed with a .44 Colt pistol and dressed in a man’s gray flannel shirt, jeans and...
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Wild Women of the West: Bethenia Owens-Hill
May 10, 2017Fifteen-year-old Bethenia Owens-Hill stared out the window of her aunt’s farmhouse, rocking her infant son to...
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Wild Women of the West: The Bride Business
May 3, 2017Living in loneliness on the plains or in the mountains of the West without female friends...
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Wild Women of the West: Mochi
April 27, 2017In the spring of 1875, a locomotive pulling several freight cars left Fort Leavenworth, Kansas bound...
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Wild Women of the West: Katherine Clemmons
April 12, 2017On February 17, 1894, the posh Chamberlain Restaurant in Washington, D.C., was filled to capacity with...
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Wild Women Of The West: Nellie Wallace
March 17, 2017Deacon Joe Sleet’s correspondence with widow Nellie Wallace was full of promise for the future. When...
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Wild Woman Wednesday: The American Amazons What it must have been like to ride with Buffalo Bill Cody's show. The ladies in Cody's American Amazons were exceptionally gifted.
August 10, 2016The mesmerized onlookers lining the dusty streets in Denver, Colorado, in 1913 were treated to a...
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Wild Woman Wednesday: Lozen Wild woman Lozen was one of the most fierce warriors imaginable, using her powers and holding her ground in order to keep the Chiricahua Apache tribe on their homeland.
July 20, 2016Among Geronimo’s band of thirty-six loyal warriors was an unassuming medicine woman named Lozen. The petite,...
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Wild Woman Wednesday: Stagecoach Mary Stagecoach Mary Field delivered the mail and so much more that required grit in the Old West.
July 13, 2016A well-traveled trail rests peacefully between the rich forested hillsides around the town of Cascade, Montana,...
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Wild Woman Wednesday: Sister Blandina Sister Blandina is a bit unconventional, but wild just the same. She'd have to be so to deal with the likes of Billy the Kid.
July 6, 2016With the influx of people to the Old West, towns sprang into existence, churches were formed,...
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Wild Woman Wednesday: Winema There are some women who were wild for a cause and you can't help but admire them. Winema was one of them.
June 29, 2016Mrs. Frank “Tobey” Riddle, better known as Winema, was a mediator for the Modoc people, other...
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Wild Woman Wednesday: Lillian Russell She was known as the American Beauty, America's foremost singing star of operettas, and the most celebrated star of burlesque. Lillian Russell was a star to be reckoned with and fans in the Old West loved her.
June 22, 2016It was not so much Lillian Russell’s great dramatic ability or her clear, well-trained voice as...
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Wild Women Wednesday: Cattle Annie and Little Britches These wild gals, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, are a pair of misunderstood teens who just wanted to be part of a gang.
May 25, 2016On the afternoon of August 18, 1895, United States Marshal Bill Tilghman and Deputy Marshal Steve...
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Wild Women Wednesday: Lucille Mulhall Lucille Mulhall was among the first professional cowgirls and set the standard for all to come.
May 11, 2016A pair of large, mean steers burst out of the gate and raced onto the parade...
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Wild Women Wednesday: Charley Hatfield Charley Hatfield sought revenge for a number of tragic events in her life. She embodies the wild women of the Old West.
May 4, 2016According to the February 8, 1885, edition of the Colorado Transcript, when Charley Hatfield was born...
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Wicked Woman Wednesday: Annie McIntyre Morrow Annie "Peg Leg" McIntyre Morrow was not a wicked woman, just more so lost. And the story of her life is one of tragedy, courage, and resourcefulness.
April 13, 2016Her name was Annie McIntyre Morrow, and the story of her life and times in the...
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