Women on the Frontier

May 1846

June 12, 2009

“In the winter of 18 and 46 our neighbor got hold of Fremont’s History of California and began talking of moving to the New Country & brought the book to my husband to read & he was carried away with the idea too. I said O let us not go. Our neighbors, some of them [...]

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Elizabeth Custer

November 23, 2008

Elizabeth Custer secured her own place in history by the promotion of her husband’s memory. Married to the man who was the youngest general in American military history, George A. Custer, Libby Custer devoted her life to her husband and to the preservation of his memory and his place in history after his death at The Little Big Horn.

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Calamity Jane

October 24, 2008

Martha Jane Canary (1848-1903) was born in Princeton, Missouri. This hard drinking woman wore men’s clothing, used their bawdy language, chewed tobacco and was handy with a gun.

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