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May 25, 2024
BULLHEAD CITY — “It’s a real story, with real people,” said Debbie Miller-Marschke, Olive Ann Oatman re-enactor. “She lived here in this area — it happened here. The history is
January 11, 2024
On February 4, 1974, publishing heiress Patty Hearst was taken from her Berkeley, California, apartment—but Hearst is far from the only abduction case to have captured public attention.
January 10, 2024
From the Siberian princess to the American heiress, some remarkable women have had themselves inked for love, art or money
September 14, 2023
We talk with author Katie Hickman about her new book and some of its standout women who migrated West across the treacherous frontier.
September 8, 2023
Katie Hickman’s “Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West” is as much about westward expansion and the colonization — or, in seemingly benign language, westward “migration” and “settlement” —
March 24, 2023
Victor LaValle’s novel ‘Lone Women’ reinvents the western, adding horror and a Black woman pioneer protagonist — with help from the women in his own life.
February 4, 2023
Have you ever heard the story of Olive Oatman and her sister Mary Ann, two pioneer Mormon girls who lived with Native Americans for five years? Their fascinating tale begins with the Oatman family, who wanted
October 30, 2022
For thousands of years, tattooing was an important form of cultural expression for Indigenous people across the Americas, but missionaries abolished the practice at different points in time as part of efforts to assimilate tribes and convert them to Christianity. Today, a growing number of...
October 25, 2022
Katie Hickman's "Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West" features pioneer wives, trafficked immigrants and a heroic Black midwife, among others.
June 9, 2022
Katie Hickman tells the stories of the women who made it possible for their men to be the great pioneers of the American West