Rules of the Road

Rules of the Road

One of the big attractions of a Wild West show was the stagecoach. Many shows featured depictions of hold-ups, complete with runaway coaches, passengers held at gunpoint, and the dispatch of the bad guys. In real life, stagecoach travel was far from comfortable, and...
A Toffer in Pants

A Toffer in Pants

Watching Kamala Harris stride onstage to accept her party’s nomination as its candidate for president of the United States gave me a surprising gut-punch. It brought back some long-buried memories of growing up in America in the ’50s and ’60s and entering...
Why Cowgirls?

Why Cowgirls?

Why am I so fascinated with the history of cowgirls when I’m not one myself? Five reasons. They were wildly famous and yet, other than Annie Oakley, not many of them are known today. They lived a double life, performing on the Wild West circuit on the same day they...
One of Goldie’s Scrapbooks

One of Goldie’s Scrapbooks

Goldie kept many scrapbooks, and this one chronicled her life on the road with the most famous cowgirl of her time, Lucille Mulhall.