Women were an attractive curiosity during the heyday of the California Gold Rush. A woman could hang her underwear out on a clothesline and draw a...
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Western Women
The West’s First Female Gunfight
When the Legend Becomes the Truth Print the Legend There is a persistent myth that the first gunfight in the West between women occurred in Denver...
The Last Ride of Bonnie McCarroll
An on-the-scene account you’ve likely never heard until now. Perhaps the best known photo of a woman bronc riding is the 1915 image of Bonnie...
We Won’t Back Down
Western women led the way for woman suffrage 50 years before 19th Amendment became the law of the land.
Locked and Loaded!
Pearl Hart and a posse of sharpshooting Western women shaped the West from the barroom to the courthouse.
Sharlot Hall’s Name is Writ Large in Arizona History
But few know the depth of her legacy.