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Wild Women Of The West: Frieda Fligelman & Belle Fligelman Winestine

March 29, 2023
Jeannette Rankin has a statue in Montana’s capitol and in Washington D.C.’s Statuary Hall, but two young suffragists from Helena, Montana, stand as boldly in history as champions for the cause of women’s rights. Frieda Fligelman, born in 1890, and her one-year-younger sister, Belle, were the only children in a prosperous, well-educated, Jewish household, who...
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Wild Women Of The West: Mary Pennington

By Chris Enss
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March 22, 2023
“Underfeeding will make a coward of a nation,” Dr. Mary Pennington announced at the National Poultry, Butter and Egg Association conference in Chicago in October 1917.  “A hungry man may rise to a moment of valor, but when a whole people are hungry, they become moral and physical weaklings.”  At the time Dr. Pennington made...
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Wild Women Of The West: Fox Hastings

By Chris Enss
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March 1, 2023
Cowboy Bill Pickett is credited with introducing the sport of bulldogging to rodeos in 1907.  In bulldogging, the rider dashes after a mad, fleeing steer; leans out from the saddle; throws himself onto the steer’s horns; and bringing the beast to the ground in a swirling scramble of dust and a half a pound of...
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Wild Women Of The West: Lulu Bell Parr

By Chris Enss
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February 15, 2023
An angry chestnut mare dashed out of the wire enclosure, bucking and twisting.  The rider on its back gripped the reins with all her strength.  The horse pitched, whirled, and kicked in an attempt to eject the passenger.  Lulu Bell Parr, the tenacious cowgirl atop the animal, held on tightly, determined not to be thrown. ...
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Wild Women Of The West: May Manning Lillie

By Chris Enss
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February 8, 2023
A bespectacled photographer emerged from under a black curtain draped over a massive camera and tripod.  In his right hand he held an instrument that when pressed would take a picture.  In his left hand he held a flash attachment to illuminate his subject.  “On the count of three, Mrs. Lillie,” he warned.  May Manning...
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Wild Women Of The West: Fanny Sperry Steele

By Chris Enss
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February 1, 2023
“If there aren’t any horses in heaven, I don’t want to go,” World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider Fanny Sperry Steele told a New York public relations consultant in 1980. Fanny’s love for horses began at the age of three when she tried to lasso a pinto with her mother’s scarf. By the time she was...
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Wild Women Of The West: Nellie Cashman

By Chris Enss
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January 25, 2023
Night had fallen over Tombstone, Arizona, and every restless and rowdy character in the vicinity of the southwestern town had poured into the saloons and gambling dens to while away the hours until dawn arrived. The doorways of the numerous taverns that lined Allen Street were illuminated with smoky kerosene torches. Signs that hung over...
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Wild Women Of The West: Julia Bulette

By Chris Enss
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January 18, 2023
The cold, grey January sky above Virginia City, Nevada, in 1867 unleashed a torrent of sleet on a slow moving funeral procession traveling along the main thoroughfare of town.  Several members of the volunteer fire department, Virginia Engine Company Number One, was first in a long line of mourners following after a horse drawn carriage...
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Wild Women Of The West: Nancy Bragg Witmer

By Chris Enss
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January 11, 2023
Some women were just born to the occupation of rodeo performer, trick rider and roper, and Nancy Bragg Witmer was one of those women.  Nancy first rode into the rodeo arena to dazzle fans with her talents in 1939.  The Kansas native perfected her roping and riding skills as a member of the Tulsa Mounted...
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