This winter month gives us lots of reasons to celebrate the Old West: from rodeos to women's rights, from Roy Rogers to Annie Oakley, from one of the world's great novels to a big hunk of northern America.
It was Nov. 1, 1936 that the Rodeo Cowboy's Association was founded. Nov. 4, 1924 is marked as a red letter day for the advancement of women—on that day, both Wyoming and Texas elected the nation's first women governor: Nellie Taylor Ross in Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson in Texas.
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