Nobody messed with Sarah Bowman, “The Great Western.”
She was a giant among women—hell, she was a giant among most men—this “Amazon of the Border” who was a military hero in the Mexican War, a groundbreaking businesswoman, a “good specimen of the frontier woman” and, as some put it, the prototype for “the whore with a heart of gold.”
They called Sarah Bowman “The Great Western,” borrowing the name of the world’s largest steamship. It fit the woman who was at least six
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