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Brown,Molly The Unsinkable a tough, pioneer woman "too mean to sink" along with the Titanic.
Calamity Jane, The Autobiography of : the "Heroine of the plains." Hung around the Overland Trail territory, was even a Pony Express rider, and friends with other "personalities" of the west during the mid to late 1800's.
Calamity Jane: The "White Devil of the Yellowstone" The information about Calamity Jane on this site is from a statement concerning her by Buffalo Bill.
Calamity Jane , born Martha Jane Canary, was a wandering American frontierswoman who dressed like a man and frequented bars, telling stories of her adventures. Adams Museum - very short bio
Cather, Willa - Homepage A wonderful resource for both scholars and fans. It not only provides access to other major Willa Cather pages but also contains extensive biograhpical information, reproductions of publications both by and about the author, and a great section on quotations. Includes photos.
Cather, Willa, Pioneer Monument site
Fields, Mary stagecoach driver, ex-slave from Tennessee. This tall, powerfully built woman was ambitious, daring and liked a good fight.
Fields, Mary had a standing bet that she could knock a man out with one punch, and she never lost a dime to anyone foolish enough to take her up on that bet!
James - Younger Gang Women: women in the lives of the outlaws.
Lovejoy, Julia Louisa - Selected Letters from Kansas 1855-1863
Natawista . daughter of Two Suns, the chief of the Blood (Kainah) tribe of the Blackfeet Confederacy worked tirelessly with her husband, Alexander Culbertson, a Mountain Man, for nearly thirty years to bridge the gap between the white adventurers on the Upper Missouri frontier and the native inhabitants of that region.
Parkhurst, Charley The "Whip"--She Was A Man!
Pringle, Catherine Sager - Across the Plains in 1844 Pioneer account of trip across plains to the Northwest ["The West"].
Starr, Belle The Bandit Queen, neither a belle nor the star of any outlaw band...still she remains a legendary wild woman of the Old West.
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