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Wild Women Of The West: Mail Order Brides
“Middle-aged bachelor sought. Prosperous 130-pound rancher with full head of hair, keen eyes…
Wild Women Of The West: Business & Professional Women’s Club
The Convention Train West
Wild Women Of The West: Women VS. The Railroad
The Fight for Fairness on the Rails
Wild Women Of The West: Mary Louise Lawser
The Santa Fe Railroad Muralist
Wild Women Of The West: The Harvey Car Courier Corps
The Harvey Car Courier Corps will take you away “into the beckoning, foot-loose distances of New M…
Wild Women Of The West: The Telegraphers
Twenty-eight-year-old Elizabeth Cogley sat at a small desk in the Pennsylvania Railroad ticket offic…
Wild Women Of The West: Dr. Mary Pennington
The Creator of the Modern Refrigerator Boxcar
Wild Women Of The West: Mary Colter
The Harvey House Architect
Wild Women Of The West: Helen Hunt Jackson
Between 1860 and 1890, railroad mileage multiplied from 30,000 to 166,000. Within the first te…
Wild Women Of The West: Sarah Kidder
The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad operated as it usually did on April 10, 1901. It ran a…
Wild Women Of The West: Laura Bullion
The Wild Bunch Train Robber
Wild Women Of The West: The Harvey Girls
The Railroads’ Hospitality Ambassadors
Wild Women Of The West: Miriam Leslie
It was a gloomy, chilly evening in mid-April 1877 when Miriam Leslie, her husband Frank, a Skye terr…
Wild Women Of The West: Lillie Langtry
A huge cloud of steam boiled out of the tremendous stack on the locomotive engine hauling a Union Pa…
Wild Women Of The West: Juliet Fish Nichols
Just off Fort Point are several rocks that are a terror to mariners and on which many a good ship ha…
Wild Women Of The West: Juana Navarro Alsbury
We could hear the Mexican officers shouting to the men to jump over, and the men were fighting so cl…
Wild Women Of The West: Francita Alavez
The moment Madam Alavez arrived at Copano, she began her work of intercession and performed deeds of…
Women Of The West: Annie McIntyre Morrow
Her name was Annie McIntyre Morrow, and the story of her life and times in the Idaho mining camps of…
Women Of The West: Florence Mabel Dedrick
“She is heart and soul in the work and has been wonderfully blessed in her efforts.” Comment abo…