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If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men-a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Between 1847 and 1858, more...
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What are the true hidden stories behind the mythical and most notorious women of the Wild West days, including Calamity Jane, Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, Lola Montez, Pearl Hart, Madame Moustache, Carrie Nation, and Bridget Grant?
In his 1927 book, "Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats," journalist Duncan Aikman (1889-1955) through meticulous research has uncovered the often-amazing hidden stories behind the glamorous myths of these matrons of the Old...
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The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male, and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold, until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives.
The ten remarkable women in “African American Women of the Old West” were all born before 1900, some were slaves, some were free, and...
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[Sarah Raymond Herndon]
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[2016]
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English
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Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865 - barely a month after the end of the Civil War - mounted her beloved pony and headed west alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers. They traveled by wagon train over the Great Plains toward the Rocky Mountains, with no certain idea of where they would settle themselves but a strong desire to leave war-torn Missouri behind and start a new life. Days on the...
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