{"id":2194,"date":"2022-08-06T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2022-08-06T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:02:45","slug":"highlighting-pioneer-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting Pioneer Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/truewestmagazine.com\/article\/the-real-women-of-the-wild-west\/\">great link<\/a>&nbsp;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\u00a0<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<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM-657x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM-657x1024.png 657w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM-289x450.png 289w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM-768x1197.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM-985x1536.png 985w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM-1314x2048.png 1314w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM-624x973.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.56.47-PM.png 1460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The most famous female journalist in the nation was told by one editor that it was impossible to think a woman could go around the world in 80 days, like Jules Verne\u2019s popular novel. \u201cVery well,\u201d she said angrily, \u201cstart the man and I\u2019ll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She completed the trip in 72 days and then wrote a successful book about it. She is seen below wearing one of her road outfits.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy Library of Congress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM-592x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM-592x1024.png 592w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM-260x450.png 260w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM-768x1328.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM-888x1536.png 888w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM-1184x2048.png 1184w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM-624x1079.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-05-at-11.59.51-PM.png 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a&nbsp;great link&nbsp;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\u00a0Democracy In America, he wrote, \u201cif one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular [&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-2194","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\/2194","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=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}