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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

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.

From the Siberian princess to the American heiress, some remarkable women have had themselves inked for love, art or money

We talk with author Katie Hickman about her new book and some of its standout women who migrated West across the treacherous frontier.

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” —

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.

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

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...

Katie Hickman's "Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West" features pioneer wives, trafficked immigrants and a heroic Black midwife, among others.

Katie Hickman tells the stories of the women who made it possible for their men to be the great pioneers of the American West