Her name isn’t real and neither are most of the folklore images of her. Calamity Jane—yes, there really was such a person in the Old West—wasn’t the...
Calamity Jane
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The Three Charleys
Charley Parkhurst was the name; Stage driving was the game, But it wasn’t till he died, Anyone knew he was a dame. Okay, it’s a crude rhyme, but it...
State of the Union
They’re larger than life, these men and women of the Old West who are part of America’s history and its legacy. They were bigger and braver,...
State of the Union
They’re larger than life, these men and women of the Old West who are part of America’s history and its legacy. They were bigger and braver,...
The Three Charleys
Charley Parkhurst was the name; Stage driving was the game, But it wasn’t till he died, Anyone knew he was a dame. Okay, it’s a crude rhyme, but it...
Donaldina Cameron
The girls she saved called her Lo Mo, Chinese for Beloved Mother; the men she thwarted called her Fahn Quai, the White Devil; and history calls her...
Vera and the Sultan
Vera McGinnis was well aware one of the world’s richest and most exotic men was in the audience that September night in 1926 when she put on her...
Christina Hillius
Who would ever think a Russian peasant emigrant of the late 1800s would one day become a beacon for literacy in America? But that is the story of...
Sarah Winnemucca
“I was a very small child when the first white people came into our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued so...
Esther Morris
The real “mother of women suffrage” is not a name you’ll find in most history books, not a name that comes immediately to mind as does Susan B....
Vera’s Life in the Circus was a Zoo
The first time Vera McGinnis entered the Big Top at Madison Square Garden in New York City, she looked like a giant Dresden Doll. She was atop a...
Jack Elam (1919-2003)
Jack Elam died October 20, 2003, at his home in Ashland, Oregon, after several years of ill health. He was recently named True West’s Best Western...