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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
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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
Wild Women Of The West: Louisa Strentzel Muir
The light from a spectacular full moon spilled into the windows of the parlor at the Strentzel Ranch…
Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Dutcher & Lady Jane Franklin
Yosemite’s Half Dome, the hooded monk in stone, brooding over its eastern end, rises thousands of …
Wild Women Of The West: A Fashionable Encounter
A hot July breeze skidded across the banks of the Green River south of Fort Bridger, Wyoming. …
Wild Women Of The West: Belle Black & Jennie Freeman
It was almost eight in the morning on June 3, 1895, when Jennie Freeman and Belle Black rode into th…
Wild Women Of The West: Mildred Douglas
When twenty four-year old Mildred Douglas rode a steer in the Garden City, Kansas, rodeo in 1919, it…
Wild Women Of The West: Ruth Roach
An all-around cowgirl champion with unmistakable style in riding, roping, and dress
Wild Women Of The West: Prarie Rose Henderson
A successful ladies’ bronc buster and Wild West Show performer
