Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, Colorado - My buddy, David, took this magnificent picture of the moose he spotted on his way into Bayfield, Colorado. The moose was sighted north of Cool Water Ranch, on County Road 501, between Vallecito Reservoir and Bayfield, Colorado.

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Highland County Virginia - Dunmore War & Revolution

Highland County, Virginia - In chapter 10, page 100, The History of Highland County, by Oren F. Morton, deals with The Dunmore War of 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant, the Revolution, Augusta Men in the War and slight outward change under Independence. From 1764 until 1774 there was a nominal peace with the Indians. It was the summer of 1774 that persistent pressure of the white settlers led to outrages as war broke out. Governor Dunmore led a force down the Ohio from Wheeling, while General Andrew Lewis, with militia of the Valley re-enforced by a few troops from Bedford and Culpepper, marched down the Great Kanawha, reaching Point Pleasant early in October.

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1912 - The Baby New Year Is A Suffraget

America - The following cartoon appeared in View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

100 Years Ago Today - March 19, 1912

America - Tuesday morning, March 19, 1912, The Bisbee Daily Review had this political cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, displayed on the frontage with the headlines reading "The Siege of the Suffragets, Will Mr. Asquith Surrender?."

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Pauline Garfield Bush - 1913 Suffragets

America - In The Day Book, dated 11 February 1913, Chicago, Illinois, page 20, there was a picture of a "Western girl you love in the movies was a sure-enough suffragette." Who was this western girl we loved in the movies? How and when did she become a suffragette? She was known other than Pauline Garfield Bush, in character and in life.

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The Pioneering Feminist

America - Most everyone should remember Gloria Steinem, born in Toledo, Ohio, a freelance writer after college, who grew more engaged in the women's movement, feminism. Steinem was a social activist, writer, editor and lecturer and an outspoken champion of women's rights.

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NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, Colorado - This week I received a couple of cemetery stone markers that marks the grave in Warm Springs at Ft. Dinwiddie, Virginia (0n the left) and the "Old Lebanon" or "Craig Cemetery" (on the right). The image on the left shows what seems to be the following: "John Andrew, C. of W. & Eliza A. Warwick, 1st Lt. Co. G. 11. VA. Cav., Rosser's Brigade A. N. Va., Mar. 30, 1837, May 29, 1900, By Faith we are saved.

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1913 English Militant Suffragets

England - This photograph was taken especially for The Day Book, dated October 20, 1913, by photographer Van Oeyen, shows Mrs. Emmeline (Goulden) Pankhurst (15 July 1858-14 June 1928), the great leader, British political activist of the English militant suffragets, being quizzed by Untied States immigration officials on board the French line La Provence, on which she came to America.

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