Women in History
Mary M. Alward
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Mattie Silks: Queen of the Red Lights
Mattie Silks was born on a small farm in Kansas in 1846. By the time she was 19 years old, she was a very successful madame.
Mary Edwards Walker: A Free Spirit
In her day, Mary Edwards Walker was looked upon as a wild woman. Today we would think of her as a free spirit - a woman who lived her life and followed her dreams.
C. Parkhurst drove stage for Wells Fargo for over twenty years between Santa Cruz and San Jose, California. He was one the best stage drivers the Old West ever knew. But Charley had a secret that wasn't disclosed until the day he died.
Was Sarah Lockwood Winchester one of history's wild woman or just a woman who was so overwhelmed with grief that she went mad?
Pearl Hart: The Arizona Bandit
My name is Pearl Hart. I hail from Canada. I was born in 1817 and my life was an adventuresome one. I lived to be 90 years old. In the meantime I had a lot of fun. Society's rules meant nothing to me. I even robbed a stagecoach.
Gypsy Rose Lee: American Actress and Infamous Burlesque Stripper
One of the most publicized women in the world started out as an innocent, relatively untalented, young girl with an over powerful stage mother. Gypsy Rose Lee is known as the inventor of the strip tease.
Lady Godiva:The Woman Who Dared To Be Bare
Never in history was one woman so dedicated to her convictions and her people. Lady Godiva made her body bare in order to allow her town to be tax free and to be able to share her love of art. Read about her historic ride and what really made her do ...
Story of one woman's desparate attempt to live a peaceful life and the tragic circumstances which would leave her trapped in this realm even after her death.
All the male heroes bowed their heads in submission; only two sisters proudly stood up to avenge the country.
-15th Century Poem
Erzebet Bathory: History and Folklore of the Blood Countess
Transylvania is best known as the home of Vlad Dracule, the ruler said to be the inspiration for Braham Stoker's Dracula, but it was also the dwelling of a darker evil.