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A Lady in Defiance
- Aug 6, 2014
- 2 min
Like a Phoenix, Queen of the Utes Rose from the Ashes … Literally
John had Abigail. Romeo had Juliet. Chief Ouray had Chipeta. Chief Ouray and Chipeta Unless you live in Colorado or are a student of history, you’ve probably never heard of her. She was the second wife of the Ute chief, but she came to be so much more. Dubbed “Queen of the Utes” by a reporter contemptuous of Indians, a poet turned the slam into an homage. And well-deserved it was. When Chipeta was only an infant, a band of renegades attacked her Kiowa village. She was the sol
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A Lady in Defiance
- Jul 24, 2014
- 2 min
Virginia Taught Her to Smile; Texas Taught Her to Fight
The past and the present I love the stories of women who, on the verge of losing everything, look defeat squarely in the eye and knock the snot out of it. When Sarah Cockrell’s husband Alexander died in 1858, he left her with three small children and a few struggling businesses. Oh, and a mountain of debt. At the time of his death, Alexander owned a sawmill, gristmill, office building, and a ferry business in Dallas. Recognizing Sarah’s business acumen, and since he couldn’t
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A Lady in Defiance
- Jul 18, 2014
- 2 min
A Teenage Girl and a Handsome Bandit. The Stuff of Legends and Regrets.
Do you remember your first boyfriend? Was he, perhaps, a bit of a bad influence? Did you follow him into escapades that now leave you wondering in horror, what was I thinking? Cheer up. He probably never shot it out with US Marshals. Rose Dunn, youngest of ten, was born in Oklahoma and received a formal education from a convent. In the meantime, two of her brothers went astray of the law and started hanging around some pretty tough characters. Sometime in 1892, they brought G
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A Lady in Defiance
- Feb 10, 2014
- 2 min
Mollie Fly–The Woman at the OK Corral
By Heather Frey Blanton
Copyright 2014 Heather Blanton Follow me on https://www.facebook.com/authorheatherblanton/?fref=ts and
https://twitter.com/heatherfblanton Mollie Fly Not much is known about Mollie. You’ve probably never heard of her. But you know her husband. C.S. “Buck” Fly was THE photographer in Tombstone when the shoot-out at the OK Corral went down. Mary “Mollie” McKie moved with her family to San Francisco sometime in the 1850’s, when she was around 8 or 10. Th
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A Lady in Defiance
- Jan 27, 2014
- 3 min
Queen of the Klondike…A Great Ride While it Lasted
One of the few pretty faces in the Klondike. By Heather Frey Blanton
Copyright 2014 Heather Blanton Follow me on https://www.facebook.com/heatherfreyblanton and
https://twitter.com/heatherfblanton Freedom. A true lady in Defiance cries out for it. Refuses to live without it. Pursues it at any cost. Society, propriety—even common sense won’t stop her from wrapping her slender fingers around it. In the end, she may only have her memories of it, but at least she tasted it. For
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A Lady in Defiance
- Jan 6, 2014
- 3 min
When it’s all Coming Apart — Bake a Pie in Alaska
Harriet in front of her hotel with her new stagecoach. By Heather Frey Blanton
Copyright 2013 Heather Blanton Follow me on https://www.facebook.com/heatherfreyblanton and
https://twitter.com/heatherfblanton Feeling a little low today? Like the world is sucker-punching you? Well, you can mope…or you can fight. Learn a lesson from a true lady in defiance. “I only had seven dollars to my name. I didn’t know a soul in Alaska. I had no place to go. So I stood on the beach in the
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