1916 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, “Tokyo Rose”, American typist and broadcaster, broadcast English-language propaganda via Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers during WWII was born; the Department of Justice deemed her information innocuous, but she was eventually tried and convicted of one count of treason. She was eventually pardoned after witness testimony was shown to be false. (d. 2006)
A Husband Wanted
Enter to win a copy of two books about mail order brides of the Old West. The titles you can win are Hearts West: True Stories of Mail Order Brides on the Frontier
and
Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail Order Match Making on the
Western Frontier.
A Husband Wanted
By a lady who can wash, cook, scour, sew, milk, spin, weave, hoe, (can’t plow), cut wood, make fires, feed the pigs, raise the chickens, rock the cradle, (gold-rocker, I thank you sir!), saw a plank, drive nails, etc. These are a few solid branches; now for the ornamental. “Long time ago” she was good at syntax. She can read Murray’s Geography and through the rules in Pike’s Grammar. Could find six states on the Atlas. Could read, and you can see she can write. Can – no, could paint roses, butterflies, ships, etc. Could once dance, can ride a horse, donkey or oxen, besides a great many things too numerous to be named.
Now for her terms. Her age is none of our business. She is neither handsome nor a fright, yet an old man need not apply, nor any who have not a little more education than she has, and a great deal more goods, for there must be $20,000 settled on her before she will bind herself to perform all the above.
Advertisement placed in the Marysville, California newspaper in April 1849 by Dorothy Scaraggs.
To learn more about mail order brides and the advertisements they placed in various publications read Hearts West: True Stories of Mail Order Brides on the Frontier and
Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail Order Match Making on the
Western Frontier.
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Winning the West
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Seeing Double
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Somewhere Along the Oregon Trail
The Pinks
Read the Introduction of The Pinks
Most students of the Old West and American law enforcement history know the story of the notorious and ruthless Pinkerton Detective Agency and the legends behind their role in establishing the Secret Service and tangling with Old West Outlaws. But the true story of Kate Warne, an operative of the Pinkerton Agency and the first woman detective in America—and the stories of the other women who served their country as part of the storied crew of crime fighters—are not well known. For the first time, the stories of these intrepid women are collected here and richly illustrated throughout with numerous historical photographs. From Kate Warne’s probable affair with Allan Pinkerton, and her part in saving the life of Abraham Lincoln in 1861 to the lives and careers of the other women who broke out of the Cult of True Womanhood in pursuit of justice, these true stories add another dimension to our understanding of American history.
Posse Makes Way to Nebraska, History Riding With Them
Take a literary ride with the Most Intrepid Western Author’s Posse as they travel through the sand hills and Great Plains of Nebraska. The Most Intrepid Western Author’s Posse is comprised of five published, award-winning western authors; Monty McCord author of Mundy’s Law: The Legend of Joe Mundy and Hastings: The Queen of the Plains; Sherry Monahan author of Mrs. Earp: The Wives and Lovers of the Earp Brothers, The Cowboy Cookbook, and Frontier Fare; Bill Markley, author of Deadwood Dead Men and Dakota Epic: Experiences of a Reenactor During the Filming of Dances with Wolves, Kellen Cutsforth, author of Buffalo Bill, Boozers, Brothels, & Bare-Knuckle Brawlers: An Englishman’s Journal of Adventure in America, and Chris Enss, author of Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West, Hearts West: Mail Order Brides of the Old West, and Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier will tell exciting tales of the Old West.
Stories told by the posse promise to transport readers back to the days of the wild frontier when times were rowdy and justice was swift.
The Most Intrepid Western Author’s Posse’s first stop will be the Sturh Museum in Grand Island on Friday, June 10 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. On Saturday, June 11, the Posse will be in Beatrice at the Homestead National Monument of America from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Posse will be discussing their books and the taming of the Wild West.
For more information visit www.chrisenss.com.
