Cowgirl Cocktail
Rules of the Road
One of the big attractions of a Wild West show was the stagecoach. Many shows featured depictions of hold-ups, complete with runaway coaches, passengers held at gunpoint, and the dispatch of the bad guys. In real life, stagecoach travel was far from comfortable, and...
A Toffer in Pants
Watching Kamala Harris stride onstage to accept her party’s nomination as its candidate for president of the United States gave me a surprising gut-punch. It brought back some long-buried memories of growing up in America in the '50s and '60s and entering the...
Why Cowgirls?
Why am I so fascinated with the history of cowgirls when I’m not one myself? Five reasons. They were wildly famous and yet, other than Annie Oakley, not many of them are known today. They lived a double life, performing on the Wild West circuit on the same day they...
One of Goldie’s Scrapbooks
Goldie kept many scrapbooks, and this one chronicled her life on the road with the most famous cowgirl of her time, Lucille Mulhall.
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Kay Turnbaugh
I am the author of seven books, on topics as various as the mountain pine beetle, hiking and skiing guides, history, and of course, COWGIRLS!