{"id":2191,"date":"2022-08-05T23:52:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2022-08-05T23:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:52:19","slug":"highlighting-the-real-women-of-the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting &#8220;The Real Women of the Wild West&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/truewestmagazine.com\/article\/the-real-women-of-the-wild-west\/\">great link<\/a> to many interesting reading like these excerpts below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A portfolio of bold American women who changed the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to study democracy. At the end of his two-volume&nbsp;<em>Democracy In America<\/em>, he wrote, \u201cif one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women.\u201d With that spirit in mind, we present a photo essay of the strong, bold, sassy, bawdy, stubborn, bodacious and superior women of the Old West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stagecoach Mary<\/strong> : The Natives called her White Crow because she \u201cacts like a white person but has black skin.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was only the second woman in the nation to win a contract to carry the U.S. Mail. She was rough and coarse, but beloved, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMary lived to become one of the freest souls ever to draw a breath, or a .38.\u201d \u2014 Montana native Gary Cooper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM-688x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM-688x1024.png 688w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM-303x450.png 303w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM-768x1142.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM-1033x1536.png 1033w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM-1377x2048.png 1377w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM-624x928.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.44.01-PM.png 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great link to many interesting reading like these excerpts below: A portfolio of bold American women who changed the world. Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to study democracy. At the end of his two-volume&nbsp;Democracy In America, he wrote, \u201cif one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}