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Tag: Womens History
Wild Women of the West: Eliza Mott
This dedicated wife and mother started the first school in Nevada in her own home and became the state’s first schoolteacher.
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Wild Woman Wednesday: The Busy Bee Club, Free Women of The West
On rare occasions these mail-order brides were treated to elaborate weddings.
Wild Women of the West: Elinore Pruitt
Elinore Pruitt’s thick, gloved hands unfolded a newspaper advertisement and followed the words wri…
Wild Women of the West: Mollie Moses
Mollie Moses, a disheveled woman in her mid-forties, sat alone in her run-down Kentucky home, crying…
Wild Women of the West: Bethenia Owens-Hill
Fifteen-year-old Bethenia Owens-Hill stared out the window of her aunt’s farmhouse, rocking her in…
Wild Women of the West: The Bride Business
Living in loneliness on the plains or in the mountains of the West without female friends on hand ex…
Wild Women of the West: Mochi
In the spring of 1875, a locomotive pulling several freight cars left Fort Leavenworth, Kansas bound…
Wild Women of the West: Katherine Clemmons
On February 17, 1894, the posh Chamberlain Restaurant in Washington, D.C., was filled to capacity wi…
Wild Women of the West: Mollie Walsh
Mollie Walsh raced out of her house on Pike Street in Seattle, crying. A look of panic filled her …
Wild Women Of The West: Dora Hand
Dora Hand was in a deep sleep. Her bare legs were draped across the thick blankets covering her de…
Wild Women of the West: Annie Stephens
The steamship Continental pitched and rolled as it traveled over the rough waters of the Pacific Oce…
Wild Women Wednesday: Annie Stephens
The steamship Continental pitched and rolled as it traveled over the rough waters of the Pacific Oce…
Wild Women Of The West: Nellie Wallace
Deacon Joe Sleet’s correspondence with widow Nellie Wallace was full of promise for the future. …
Wild Women of the West: Widow Jones
A lively, petite woman with dark hair and dark eyes coaxed a pair of blonde mares pulling a well-use…
Wild Women Wednesday: Widow Jones
A lively, petite woman with dark hair and dark eyes coaxed a pair of blonde mares pulling a well-use…
Wild Women Wednesday: Mary Edith Collins
When Mary Edith Collins married William Andrew Moore in Willow Springs, Missouri on October 19, 1913…
Wild Women Wednesday: Senorita Rosalie
A jubilant group of children huddled around a massive color poster affixed to the arena walls of New…
Wild Women Wednesday: Clare Hodges
Twenty-seven-year-old Clare Hodges gently urged her chestnut roan through a thicket of trees and bru…
Wild Women Wednesday: Catherine Norton Sinclair
Shakespearean actor Edwin Forrest rifled through the desk drawer in the sitting room of the New York…