Archives for “Frontier Women”
Alamo survivor? Could that be right? I thought everyone died at the Alamo. Isn’t that what made it famous? Well, all the fighting men who made their stand at the mission, did, in fact, die. But there were others present–women, children, slaves–who didn’t perish during that fateful battle in 1836. Susanna Dickinson was one such [...]
You’re flustered and in a rush. Stop. Take a sip of your favorite Starbucks drink and imagine it’s 1850. You are comfortable in your home in Boston. Women are protected. You have your women friends, sisters, mothers, aunts around you. Life is good. And then Harry, your husband, comes home from the store [...]
Few things made such a huge difference in an 1800’s woman’s life than the sewing machine. But the price in the beginning put it out of reach of most. Hand sewing has been around for over 20,000 years, probably since Adam and Eve’s day when they had to make clothes out of leaves [...]
While most of us associate bonnets with the 19th century and earlier, I remember my mother wearing them in the 1950′s when she had to work outside which was a lot because she picked a lot of cotton back in those days to help the family out. Her bonnet was a slat variety [...]
In my latest release, BRIDE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY, I had to get my main characters from NY to Heartbreak Creek, CO. Since the Transcontinental had been finished the previous year (1869), I picked the train. Oops. Even though train travel had been available in the east for three decades, cross-country hauls were rare. [...]
It’s almost time for Over the Edge to release. Over the Edge is book #3 in the Kincaid Brides series and it was my favorite one of the three to write. Of course the book I’m working on NOW is always my favorite so it’s not a fair test. Two elements in Over the Edge [...]
Hi! Winnie Griggs here. (pssst – look for giveaway info at the bottom of this post) I was thumbing through one of those ‘infamous women of the old west’ type books the other day and came across a listing for a woman named Pearl Hart. The heading of First Female Captured Stagecoach Robber caught my eye. [...]
The frontier army post must’ve been a busy place with soldiers coming and going, marching and saluting. But it wasn’t only men who lived on the post. There were officers’ wives and children. And a known fact is that up until 1878 the army hired laundresses, or washerwomen as some called them. They traveled [...]
Isn’t this cover beautiful? What a gorgeous baby and hunky cowboy! I was thrilled when I received the cover for my December book and it being only September I’d normally wait to show it off. But this book and cover couldn’t be more pertinent in my life! As of today’s post, my daughter is 33 weeks pregnant and that means [...]
For every famous or well-known person in the Old West you can find a hundred who were just as tough and resilient but who never got their name in the history books. Idella Stephens Smyer was one such woman. I recently ran across her when I was reading about some of our local history. [...]
