True Westerners
Christina Hillius

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...

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Sarah Winnemucca

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...

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Esther Morris

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....

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Vera McGinns

Vera McGinns

She hardly even tried to describe the pain, but of course, how could she? What words are there to recount a ton of horseflesh landing on your tiny...

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Aunt Sally

Aunt Sally

AUNT SALLY—FIRST WOMAN IN THE BLACK HILLS. That’s all it says on her simple, rough wood headboard that now hangs in the Adams Museum in Deadwood. A...

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