Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart: Toting guns, these women of the Wild West shot down the view that life as a female pioneer was about cooking, sewing, cleaning and caring for ...

One of the most famous women in the southern West Virginia coalfields was not a ... "You ought to be ashamed of yourselves... to see one old woman who is not afraid of all the blood-hounds." ...

She’s compiled some of her favorite stories of women from the old mining days into a book called ... blackjack player and dealer in the Wild West. She was French and she had a mustache.