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Wild Women Of The West: Bessie Barriscale

January 19, 2022
Between 1914 and 1926, roper, rider, and actress Bessie Barriscale dazzled silent film fans in a series of fast paced Westerns. Movie audiences were fascinated with the versatile and beautiful star’s ability to outsmart and outshoot the outlaws in pictures such as The Bells of Austi and The Gambler’s Pal.  Named Elizabeth Mary Barriscale at...

Wild Women Of The West: Victoria Forde

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January 12, 2022
When news that cowgirl and silent film actress, Victoria Forde, had left her husband Western star, Tom Mix, in August 1928, fans were crushed.  The husband-and-wife team had entertained audiences in several films together between 1914 and 1922. Both were skilled riders who performed their own stunts in the cowboy and outlaw movies made for...

Wild Women Of The West: Ruth Roland

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January 5, 2022
Reel cowgirl Ruth Roland portrayed Pearl Marvin in a dozen silent films in The Perils of Pauline series between 1915 and 1917. Fans were on the edge of their seats watching the spunky actress ride her way in and out of trouble while solving crimes.  They waited in suspended animation for the film operator to...

Wild Women Of The West: Marie Walcamp

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December 15, 2021
Today’s film fans cannot conceive of a time when kids stomped and whistled and cheered when the names of their favorite cowgirl actresses flashed on the screen.  Children of all ages flocked to the Saturday matinee to see such silent film stars such as Eileen Sedgwick, Ruth Roland, and the serial queen of 1919, Marie...

Wild Women Of The West: Texas Guinan

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December 8, 2021
Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecelia Guinan) was a popular cowgirl star from 1918-1923, who grew up on a ranch near Waco, Texas. Before graduating from high school, she received a scholarship from the Chicago Conservatory of Music. After she acquired a degree in music and art, she moved to Denver and helped her father on...

Wild Women Of The West: Mary Anderson

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November 24, 2021
The angry hawk clenched its talons on the heavy leather gauntlet, stabbing the delicate wrist beneath.  Wings bated, the half-wild bird glared fiercely into the large, gray eyes of his captor.  Mary Anderson stared back with steely determination.  This unruly bird would be tamed, she resolved, and would become a living prop for her performance...

Wild Women Of The West: Carolina Cotton

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November 10, 2021
Helen Hagstrom is best known for her country and Western swing music and yodeling, as well as her appearances in numerous television specials, radio programs, and films under the name of Carolina Cotton. Nicknamed “The Yodeling Blonde Bombshell,” Hagstrom was an entertainer and teacher throughout her life. Helen Hagstrom was born on October 20, 1925, in Cash (Craighead...

Wild Women Of The West: Dorothy Page

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November 3, 2021
In the late 1930s, entertainer Dorothy Page proved to movie goers that cowgirls were just as capable of riding and singing while catching bad guys on screen as their male counterparts. She brought to the roles she played a voice above those usually heard and a more sufficient acting ability. Studios hoped those talents would...

Wild Women Of The West: Gertrude Simmons

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October 27, 2021
Twenty-one-year-old Gertrude Simmons sat in a stiff-backed chair in her small room at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and stared out at the students hurrying to class.  The young men and women attending the institution were from Native American communities across the country.  None of them were wearing the traditional clothing of their...
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