Nellie Cashman was the quintessential gold mining stampeder. For more than fifty years she combed the mining camps of the Far West. Her adventurers took her throughout the American West, south into Mexico and north to Canada and Alaska. Along with a keen sense of business and geology, she was also blessed with the “luck of the Irish.”
Nellie, a slender, petite lady barely five feet tall, with dar

True West March/April 2025
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- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
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