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When the American West was settled, women were few and far between. Explorers, trappers, miners, and outlaws tended to leave their families behind, if they had any. Pioneer settlers came later, and mostly stayed out of the limelight. But there were women...

A gathering in Mimbres on Sunday helped correct some misconceptions of some of the early shapers of Silver City — its famous madams. As with any pioneer town, the developing Silver City had its share of women to match the men, and some of these were...

Poker Alice’s real name was Alice Ivers she was born to Irish Immigrants on February 17, 1851, in Sudbury, England, where she attended an elite boarding school for young women before her family moved to Colorado. When she was 20-years-old she met a...

By Joe Southern jsouthern@fortbendstar.com (Photo by Joe Southern) Ed Rudnick, left, and Daniel Kellogg portray a U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger respectively during Tales of Texas last weekend at George Ranch Historical Park. History is about to repeat...

Lottie Deno was an Old West success story. Born in 1844, she became a professional gambler in the 1860s—a rarity for a woman. She and her paramour/husband Frank Thurmond gambled in various Texas locales from the ‘60s, through the early ‘80s—occasionally...