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  • America's Best Female Sharpshooter

    The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith

    Series series William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West
    Today, most remember “California Girl” Lillian Frances Smith (1871–1930) as Annie Oakley’s chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows’ female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley’s conservative “prairie beauty” persona clashed with Smith’s tendency to wear flashy clothes and keep company with the cowboys and American Indians she performed with. This lively first ... Leer más

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  • Red Sapphire

    The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist

    In 1950, facing artistic and legal persecution by Senator Joe McCarthy because of her inclusion on Louis Budenz’s list of four hundred concealed communists, single mother Hannah Weinstein fled to Europe. There, she built a television studio and established her own production company, Sapphire Films, then surreptitiously hired scores of such blacklisted writers as Waldo Salt, Ian McLellan Hunter, ... Leer más

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  • Polly Pry

    The Woman Who Wrote the West

    In 1900, the young and beautiful Leonel Ross Campbell became the first female reporter to work for the Denver Post.As the journalist known as Polly Pry, she ruffled feathers when she worked to free a convicted cannibal and when she battled the powerful Telluride miners’ union. She was nearly murdered more than once. And a younger female colleague once said, “Polly Pry did not just report the news, ... Leer más

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  • The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline

    A Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and the Creation of Buffalo Bill

    Edward Zane Carroll Judson aka Ned Buntline (1821–1886) was responsible for creating a highly romantic and often misleading image of the American West, albeit one that the masses found irresistible in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Some scholars estimate that he wrote at least four hundred dime novels over his lifetime, and perhaps as many as six hundred. While he is best known for ... Leer más

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  • Blonde Rattlesnake

    Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles

    Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at gunpoint over an eight-week period. But the worst of their crimes was the shooting of a popular elementary school teacher, Cora Withington, and a former ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline

    A Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and the Creation of Buffalo Bill

    Narrado por Chris Abernathy ...

    Completo

    7 hora 18 minutos

    Edward Zane Carroll Judson aka Ned Buntline (1821–1886) was responsible for creating a highly romantic and often misleading image of the American West, albeit one that the masses found irresistible in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Some scholars estimate that he wrote at least four hundred dime novels over his lifetime, and perhaps as many as six hundred.While he is best known for discovering ... Leer más

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    Blonde Rattlesnake

    Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles

    Narrado por Callie Beaulieu ...

    Completo

    6 hora 15 minutos

    Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at gunpoint over an eight-week period. But the worst of their crimes was the shooting of a popular elementary school teacher, Cora Withington, and a former ... Leer más

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  • Separate Lives

    Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon

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    Unveil the untold story of trailblazing educator Mary Rippon in this updated edition, featuring two new chapters revealing her enduring legacy.A pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia, Mary Rippon was the first female professor at the University of Colorado and is believed to have been the first woman in the United States to teach at a state university. ... Leer más

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  • Big Trouble

    A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Strugg

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  • The Calamity Papers

    Western Myths and Cold Cases

    Spur Award-winning author, Dale L. Walker continues what he started in Legends and Lies, by uncovering the truth around some of the American West's most famous and infamous figures. Leaving no figure sacred and no stone unturned, Walker dives deep into some of the most enduring myths and legends of the Old West:*What was the real story behind the death of Meriwether Lewis--suicicide or homicide? ... Leer más

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  • The Fifties

    This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is "an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade" ( Time ).Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It's undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is... ... Leer más

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