Wyatt Earp and Josey Marcus--An Affair of Love and Blood
by Heather Frey Blanton The point of my blog is to remind my American sisters (whether they be American by birth or spirit), of our fiery...
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A Lady in Defiance
May 31, 20223 min read
Penelope Barker--the Real Spitfire
“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.” — Thomas Jefferson,...
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A Lady in Defiance
Jun 7, 20192 min read
Immigrants Who Came to Give and Not Take…Meet Sarah Thal
Going back through some old research notes, I stumbled across the story of an immigrant to America. An unsung heroine who came here to...
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A Lady in Defiance
Feb 19, 20182 min read
New Release Embarrasses Author’s Teenage Children. Noooooo…
A lot of you know my newest release, Hell-Bent on Blessings, is based on the actual pioneer lady Harriet Pullen. She was one tough chick....
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A Lady in Defiance
Nov 14, 20142 min read
A Woman of Restraint, Yet She Had Him Dead-to-Rights
Guest story today is from Maria Tonseth! Busted! My dad and his three brothers grew up on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio. They were...
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A Lady in Defiance
Nov 5, 20142 min read
Girls, This is a How a Lady Plays Hard to Get to Get What She Wants.
Ah, the romance of Hawaii. Today’s Lady in Defiance is submitted by Mary Margaret Smith Back in the early 50’s, my grandma was a young...
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A Lady in Defiance
Oct 13, 20142 min read
The First Woman Mayor Ever Elected in America Was No Joke
“No one will vote for her. She’s a woman.” And so started a joke that launched a sleepy Kansas town to international fame—as the first...
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A Lady in Defiance
Sep 25, 20143 min read
It’s How You Take Life. You Don’t Let it Take You. Cowboy Wisdom.
I will be fifty my next birthday. Some days I feel like a kid, some days I feel a little old, but I don’t feel fifty. My daddy used to...
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A Lady in Defiance
Aug 19, 20142 min read
A Former Slave, She Married a White Man and Left a Legacy of Peace in the Wild West
Mattie and John In light of all the racial tension boiling in Ferguson, I thought it would be uplifting to remind us that, even in the...
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A Lady in Defiance
Aug 6, 20142 min read
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...
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A Lady in Defiance
Jul 24, 20142 min read
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...
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A Lady in Defiance
Jul 18, 20142 min read
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...
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A Lady in Defiance
Jul 7, 20142 min read
Say, Where’d You Get Those Bloomers, Amelia?
Suffrage and Temperance? No, no, no. Let’s talk Bloomers! This was supposed to be better than a dress? In American history, you have...
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A Lady in Defiance
Jun 18, 20142 min read
For Liberty or Sex on the Kitchen Table?
Anna Smith Strong on AMC’s show Turn is portrayed as a woman more in love with a man than the cause of Liberty. Maybe. But I think it was...
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A Lady in Defiance
May 28, 20142 min read
Love the Cause or Love the Man? A Question this Confederate Spy Had to Answer
Antonia Ford, a pretty, sassy spy for the Confederacy, didn’t mind batting her eyelashes at a Union soldier if it got her intelligence....
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A Lady in Defiance
May 15, 20143 min read
Charly Parkhurst’s Legendary Life of Lies
Sometimes, just existing is such a task. A college roommate said that to me many years ago. For some reason, I thought of that when I...
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A Lady in Defiance
May 1, 20143 min read
Eat, Sleep, Shoot…Repeat. Oh, Yeah, Annie Got Her Gun All Right!
Perhaps you’ve heard it said, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Poverty and physical abuse are two things that will either make...
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A Lady in Defiance
Apr 22, 20142 min read
Eliza Pinckney — a Fire in Her Belly and Dye on Her Hands
Poor, oppressed women. We’ve been kept barefoot and pregnant our whole existence with little chance to improve our lot in life. America,...
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A Lady in Defiance
Apr 15, 20142 min read
Meliscent Barrett Twirled a British Soldier ‘Round Her Little Finger…and saved Concord?
Meliscent Barrett Prior to open hostilities between the Colonists and the British, Colonel James Barrett and his son James ran a...
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A Lady in Defiance
Apr 8, 20143 min read
John Hancock: Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof…Because of His Dolly
By Heather Frey Blanton Dorothy Hancock The biggest, baddest, most bold signature on the Declaration of Independence belongs to John...
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