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Frontier Women

by | Jul 20, 2018 | True West Blog

“I felt a secret joy to have the power that set things straight.” Anonymous Women performed a labor more valuable than gold by pressing for schools, churches law and order. The West provided a font of opportunity for a free-spirited woman. There were four times as many women lawyers twice as many journalists and doctors. They ran the wide gamut of characters from wild and woolly to the stalwart, calico-clad frontier women who made history along with the men. Their stories are of humo


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