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Mary Jane Colter
(1869-1958) Mary Jane Colter was a master architect and interior designer whose many works graced Arizona's Grand Canyon.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Colter moved often as a child. She lived in...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
(1867-1957Born in Wisconsin, Laura Ingalls Wilder moved often with her family. While she was growing up, her family moved to many different rural communities and small towns in the Midwest and Plains...
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Helen Hunt Jackson
(October 18, 1830 - August 12, 1885) A novelist and a poet, Helen Jackson's remarkable "A Century of Dishonor" stirred public outrage over the U.S. government's mistreatment of Native Americans. Her...
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Cattle Kate
(July 2, 1861-July 20, 1889) Ellen Liddy Watson was a female pioneer of Wyoming who became better known as Cattle Kate, an outlaw of the Old West, although she wasn't violent and was never charged with...
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Carry Amelia Moore Nation
(November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) Carry Nation is most famous for spearheading the Temperance movement (the battles against alcohol in pre-Prohibition America). She came from a troubled background:...
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Calamity Jane
(May 1, 1853–August 1, 1903) She was born Martha Jane Canary; there are numerous tales of how she got her nickname but no one knows for sure. She was a tough cookie and dressed like a man, in...
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Big Nose Kate
1850 - 1940 She was born Mary Catherine Elder Haroney in Hungary on November 7, 1850 and was reported to have been the wife of Doc Holiday, however there are no records of the marriage. She traveled...
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Belle Starr
1848 - 1889 From her association with outlaws such as Jesse James and the Younger brothers, Belle Starr reached a level of notoriety that today leaves the facts of her life not always distinguishable...
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Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley’s real name was Phoebe Moses and she was born in Darke County, Ohio in 1860. She helped her family survive by hunting and selling game, or wild animals.Though she learned to use a rifle...
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Abigail Scott Duniway
Abigail Scott Duniway was a crusader for Women's Suffrage. Born in Illinois, Duniway traveled to Oregon with her family in 1852. She described the arduous journey in her first book "Captain Gray's...
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