THE REAL WOMEN OF THE WILD WEST
Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to study democracy. At the end of his two-volume Democracy In America, he wrote, "if one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women. With that spirit in mind, we present a photo essay of the strong, bold, sassy, bawdy, stubborn, bodacious, and superior women of the Old West.
Four Sisters at the Soddie
These four sisters (1.-r.), Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie and Ruth Crisman, photographed in 1886, near Custer County, Nebraska, knew how blessed they were to have each other, as so many other women suffered the loneliness of the frontier. "It was a frontier saying that homesteading was a gamble: 'Yeah, the United States Government is betting you 160 acres of land that you can't live on it eight months!" -Edith Eudora Kohl in her homesteading memoir, Land of the Burnt Thigh Solomon Butcher, Courtesy Library of Congress
Spirit of the West
This is one of the only known photos of a Black cowgirl; she's called Nellie Brown. But there is no Nellie Brown recorded in Western history she's just as anonymous as the many Black women labeled only as "unknown!" However, they all knew something important. As one historian said, "More than anywhere else in the United States at the time, the frontier offered African Americans a chance in life!" All Images Courtesy True West Archives Unless Otherwise Noted
Arizona's Sharlot Hall
"I am not unwomanly don't you dare to think so-but God meant women to joy in his great, clean, beautiful world, and I thank Him that he lets me see some of it not through a windowpane!" Courtesy Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives, Prescott, Arizona
Range Boss
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Three Western legends receive their due, a biography of an outlaw, a new look at La Frontera and a new biography of a Great Plains river.
The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
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Kris Kristofferson-A Texan at Oxford
The scholar, songwriter, pilot also acted in dozens of Westerns.
BLACK GOLD ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER
The land Spanish explorers called \"Colorado\" was an untamed wilderness in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet following close on the heels of western trailblazers came pioneers of a different sort determined to tame the Wild West.
Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
Marshall Trimble, Arizona's official historian and the beloved, now-retired writer of Ask The Marshall, has shared countless stories over the years.
FRONTIER COLOSSUS
A LOOK BACK AT THE LEGENDARY TEXAS COWBOY WHO TRANSFORMED THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
The Kindled Flame 1835
A LONG ROAD TO THE BATTLE AT THE ALAMO
King of the Scatterguns
The single best and most economical arm for hunting and defense in the Wild West was the double-barreled shotgun.
A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
A dedicated father/daughter team is restoring a historic New Mexico treasure.
The Bowie Knife
The Bowie knife is an iconic symbol of American toughness and independence. Yet, its true origins are often misunderstood.
