Nellie Cashman is known for her work as a businesswoman and philanthropist throughout the West and western Canada. She made a big mark in Tombstone in the 1880s and the Klondike during the Gold Rush of 1898.
Just a few months ago, a marker was put on her grave in Victoria, British Columbia, where she died in 1925. But that monument was not the first fo

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus