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Wild Women Of The West: Hannah S. Gould

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The crew and passengers aboard the steamship the City of Columbia stood huddled together on the flooded deck of the vessel. Night was all around them and an awful moment of peril and suspense hung in the wet air. A perfect storm had overtaken the steamer and raging winds had driven her into a mass...

Wild Women Of The West: Florence LaDue

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March 15, 2024
Twenty-nine-year-old Florence LaDue laid on her back in the middle of a rodeo arena in Alberta, Canada, twirling a lasso. It was July 1910 and the crowd in the stands watching her work were cheering and whistling. The trick, the petite cowgirl was preparing to do was to throw a wide loop over a rider...

Wild Women Of The West: Texas Guinan

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February 21, 2024
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: Enid Justin

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February 14, 2024
Thirty-two-year-old Enid Justin drove her Model T Ford into the small town of Jacksboro, Texas, in early 1926, determined to sell her quality, handmade cowboy boots to the mercantile owners there. As the head of the newly formed Nocona Boot Company, the tenacious woman knew what needed to be done to make her brand a...

Wild Women Of The West: Dr. Harriet Belcher

“I am having the usual experience of beginners, the patients come in, but slowly, but all who have lately come tell me of being sent by someone who has given me a hearty recommendation.” Dr. Harriet Belcher - March 1881
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February 7, 2024
A team of bald face horses pulling a buckboard wagon galloped wildly along a dirt road heading toward the Santa Ynez Mountains, twenty miles outside of Santa Barbara. The driver, a pudgy man wearing a worried expression, urged the animals along. Dr. Harriet Belcher, a distinguished looking, forty-year-old woman with dark hair and dark eyes,...

Wild Women Of The West: Patsy Montana

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January 31, 2024
In 1939, a petite singer from Hot Springs, Arkansas, named Patsy Montana, made her screen debut in the Gene Autry Western Colorado Sunset.  Her role in the film was that of a waitress working at a diner near a popular ranch.  When the ranch hands came into the eatery one evening for supper, they asked...

Wild Women Of The West: Kitty Canutt

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January 24, 2024
Bronc busting champion Kitty Wilkes won her first title at the Wild West Celebration Rodeo in Miles City, Montana, in 1916.  The seventeen-year-old New York native’s straightforwardness and untamed physical daring gave fans the impression she was born and bred into the rugged life of a Wyoming ranch.  Few would have guessed she was new...

Wild Women Of The West: Mary Wiggins

Celebrated Stuntwoman and Congressional Gold Medal Winner
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January 17, 2024
Mary Wiggins worshipped excitement. As a double for such screen stars as Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Norma Shearer and Claudette Colbert she loved to climb the facades of tall buildings, to leap from a running horse to a speeding automobile, to fly a plane while blindfolded. Wiggins was one of the top stuntwomen during the...

Wild Women Of The West: Claire Trevor

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January 3, 2024
Claire Trevor made famous the role of Dallas the soiled dove in the film Stagecoach. With a voice once described as sounding like delicious trouble, she was one of the most sought-after supporting actresses during the 1930s and 40s.  She was born in New York City – movie buffs disagree whether it was 1909 or...
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