Historians believe the scandalous Eleanora Dumont was one of the first madams to arrive in Deadwood …
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Wild Women Of The West: Madam May Brown And The Tragic Life & Death Of Maud Lee
Ottoman and Johanne Gotsch never knew what led their daughter Anna to a life of prostitution in the …
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Wild Women Of The West: Thelma Campbell
Minnie Henderson, a prostitute working at Madam Annie Woods’ brothel in Lead, South Dakota, crawle…
Wild Women Of The West: Madam Belle Haskell And The Demise Of Maggie Broadwater
From the beginning, there was a section of Deadwood into which respectable citizens would seldom ven…
Wild Women Of The West: Maggie McDermott
Maggie McDermott peered into the grimy windows of the Mascott Saloon and eyed the faces huddled arou…
Wild Women Of The West: Madam Mollie Johnson
Among the spectators attending the baseball game at Fort Meade in mid-June 1879 between the Hard Scr…
Wild Women Of The West: Madam Dora DuFran
Judge Harold R. Hanley hammered the striking block with his gavel after announcing the verdict the j…
Wild Women Of The West: Frieda Fligelman & Belle Fligelman Winestine
Jeannette Rankin has a statue in Montana’s capitol and in Washington D.C.’s Statuary Hall, but t…
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: Fanny Sperry Steele
“If there aren’t any horses in heaven, I don’t want to go,” World Champion Saddle Bronc Ride…
Wild Women Of The West: Nellie Cashman
Night had fallen over Tombstone, Arizona, and every restless and rowdy character in the vicinity of …
Wild Women Of The West: Nancy Bragg Witmer
Some women were just born to the occupation of rodeo performer, trick rider and roper, and Nancy Bra…
Wild Women Of The West: Bessie Efner
“I enjoyed the goodwill of the people among whom I lived and was known as the only doctor between Cheyenne and Pine Bluffs.” – Dr. Bessie Efner, 1912