Nellie Cashman had a giving heart. Tombstone’s Nellie Cashman participated in many worthy causes. Her requests for donations brought her in contact...
The Angel of Tombstone
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The Famous Female Stage Robber
Pearl Hart’s entrance into Old West legend. May 30, 1899. Pearl Hart and Joe Boot rob a stage running between Globe and Florence, AZ. They get away...
Wine, Women, and Song
The females who frequented the Old West saloons… Old West saloons were pretty much a man’s world. There were saloon girls and prostitutes....
Here Comes Calamity!
Jane built a wild reputation in the West. Martha Jane Canary's story has come down to us in a somewhat romantic Hollywood version. She was no Doris...
Another Virgin Mary
A Prescott restaurateur with a heart of gold In 1870, Prescott had one boarding house and it was run by a woman named Mary Ramos, better-known as...
The Harvey Girls
“Will Rogers said: Fred Harvey kept the West supplied with food and wives.” Conditions of hash houses along railroad lines before dining cars and...
Belle Starr
Myra Maybelle Belle Shirley, AKA Belle Starr was reinvented by the media, as were many others. She was from an affluent Southern family, raised in...
Don’t Bet Against a Sporting Girl
How soiled doves tried to beat the odds against hypocrisy and politicians For several decades, Hollywood has had a fine time portraying...
Swinging Doors, Dance Hall Girls and Whiskey
For seven decades, True West has celebrated the historic saloon in fact and fiction. When True West’s founder Joe Small published his first issue of...
Opening Shot
Wanton Women of Montana In the 1890s, prostitution and red-light district brothels were common across the Big Sky State. In this unknown Montana...
A Diary of a Monumental Trip
Susan Magoffin recorded what happened on the Santa Fe Trail. Susan Shelby Magoffin was a remarkable woman for her time—for any time, when it comes...
Women Peace Officers in the West
Were there any women peace officers in the Old West? Holly Dew (Ahwatukee, AZ) I haven't run across any from the Old West and I believe if there was...