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Wild Women Of The West: Lucy Stone

March 31, 2020
Born in Massachusetts in 1818 and educated at Oberlin College, Lucy Stone lectured widely against slavery and, on behalf of women’s suffrage, helped organize the first national women’s rights convention and the American Woman Suffrage Association and published the influential Woman’s Journal. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1847, Stone became a lecturer for the Massachusetts...
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Wild Women Of The West: Ellen Clark Sargent

By Chris Enss
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March 17, 2020
When suffragette Susan B. Anthony boarded the passenger car of the Union Pacific Railroad in Ogden, Utah, in late December 1871, the train was filled to capacity.  Men, women, children, livestock, baggage, and crates containing food and supplies were all being loaded onto the vehicle bound for Chicago. Weary and carrying an oversized satchel bulging...
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Wild Women Of The West: Eleanora Dumont

By Chris Enss
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January 28, 2020
On June 15, 1853, a vivacious, petite woman stepped cheerfully off a stagecoach in Nevada City, California, dressed with all the style of Princess Eugenia of Sweden and Norway.  As she strolled into the National Hotel with her dainty steps and her bustle looping back and forth, she made a decision to changer her name...
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Wild Women of the West: Peg-Leg-Annie

By Chris Enss
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June 11, 2019
Her name was Annie McIntyre Morrow, and the story of her life and times in the Idaho mining camps of Atlanta and Rocky Bar is one of tragedy, courage, and resourcefulness.  She was born in Van Buren County, Idaho, on September 13, 1858. Her mother died giving birth to her. Annie’s father, Steve McIntyre, brought...
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Wild Women Of The West: Calamity Jane

By Chris Enss
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June 20, 2018
The sun dropped below the rim of the mountains surrounding a canvas-covered arena set up in the heart of the business district in Denver, Colorado.   The ringing notes of a six-piece band playing “Camptown Races” washed over the packed crowd. It was 1875 and an eager audience was on its feet cheering when Buffalo Bill’s...
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Wild Women Of The West: Mollie Moses

By Chris Enss
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June 13, 2018
Mollie Moses, a disheveled woman in her 40s, sat alone in her rundown Kentucky home, crying.  She wiped her eyes with the hem of her tattered black dress and glanced up at a portrait of William Cody hanging over a cold fireplace.  On the dusty coffee table in front of her lay several letters carefully...
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Wild Women Of The West: Zoe Tilghman

By Chris Enss
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February 7, 2018
Western author Zoe Tilghman’s source of inspiration was her husband lawman, Bill Tilghman.  He was, according to his friend and one time fellow lawman Bat Masterson, “the best of all of us.”  Bat was referring to all the lawmen in the west.  Zoe didn’t disagree. Born on November 15, 1880, in Kansas, Zoe Agnes Stratton...
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Wild Women of the West: The Bride Business

By Chris Enss
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May 3, 2017
Living in loneliness on the plains or in the mountains of the West without female friends on hand except for the occasional traveler, who may or may not be inclined to be social, the solitary male exile was completely cut off from the companionship of a woman.  These lonely souls, who represented a mass of...
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Wild Woman Wednesday: Agnes Hickok

By Dakota Schambach
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June 15, 2016
Wild Bill Hickok had many female admirers in his lifetime, but Agnes Lake Thatcher was the only woman who completely captured his heart.  The man known as the “deadliest pistolero in the Old West” often declared to his friends that he preferred being a bachelor.  It was a surprise to many when he married a...
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