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
Wild Women Of The West: Lucy Hobbs
“Her place in dental history is secure as the individual who conquered prejudice and precedent and prepared the way for women to become practitioners of the science and art of dentistry.” – Dr. Ralph Edwards’ tribute to Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1955