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Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

“Giuseppina Morlacchi is a beautiful creature, and she came upon the stage like a sudden ray of light. She is of the spiritual order of woman, small, delicate, fiery, with a fine little head and a luminous face, and she dances with her soul as well as with all her body. The New York Tribune – October 25, 1867

The reflection staring back at ballerina Giuseppina Morlacci showed a tired, dark-haired woman with bloodshot eyes and a pale face. She had been up most of the night memorizing her lines for a melodrama she was to appear in entitled “The Scouts of the Prairie.”

The unique Western show would premiere at a massive amphitheatre in downtown Chicago and entertain thousands of spectators. It was December 1872, and all those who hadn’t answered the call to go west were to see a program depicting the wilds beyond the Rockies.

To learn more about Giuseppina Morlacchi and the other women who performed with Cody read Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

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Some of the most poplar cowboys in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show were girls. Cody’s cast of thrill-seeking women captivated audiences in the Unites States and abroad. The numerous female acts offered an array of talent. Some rode bulls or bucking broncos, other roped steers and were trick riders, and one or two exhibited skills with firearms. Young women admired these cowgirls – women who dared to break out of society’s traditional roles, jump aboard a horse, and hold their own in a predominately male profession.

This month you’ll meet a dozen of Buffalo Bill’s female Wild West stars. These gals were an unforgettably spunky cast of characters who saddled up and rustled their dreams.

“Ah, the show and the arena. The cowgirls, the crowd, the cheers. How they loved Cody’s ladies.” Excerpt from the poem “Buffalo Gals” – Anonymous, 1898

To learn more about the women who performed with Cody read

Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

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Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

Wicked Women is a collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women offers a glimpse into Western Women’s experience that’s less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. During the late nineteenth century, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boom towns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi when they followed fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory. Prostitutes and female gamblers hoped to capitalize on the vices of the intrepid pioneers. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser known characters.

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“Most people repent their sins by thanking God that they aren’t as wicked as their neighbor.”

Miss Kitty from Dodge City, Kansas

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Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

Wicked Women is a collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women offers a glimpse into Western Women’s experience that’s less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. During the late nineteenth century, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boom towns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi when they followed fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory. Prostitutes and female gamblers hoped to capitalize on the vices of the intrepid pioneers. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser known characters.

For more information about Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West visit www.chrisenss.com.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Tomorrow something wicked comes to Nevada County, California and to bookstores everywhere. Learn all about the hard working wicked on the wild frontier reading Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

The national launch of the book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West will be held on Saturday, February 21 from Noon to 3 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum at 5 Kidder Court in Nevada City, California. The public will be treated to exciting tales about the wicked women of the Old West, delicious apple and blueberry tarts and lemonade, they’ll learn how to play three card Monte, and can register for a Wicked Women gift package.

For more information contact 530/470-0902 or visit www.chrisenss.com.

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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Something wicked comes to Nevada County, California and to bookstores everywhere this week. Learn all about the hard working wicked on the wild frontier reading Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

The national launch of the book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West will be held on Saturday, February 21 from Noon to 3 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum at 5 Kidder Court in Nevada City, California. The public will be treated to exciting tales about the wicked women of the Old West, delicious apple tarts and lemonade, they’ll learn how to play three card Monte, and can register for a Wicked Women gift package.

For more information contact 530/470-0902 or visit www.chrisenss.com.

Enter now to win a copy of Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

A wisp of evil can lure the vulnerable into a haze of wickedness.

Something wicked comes to Nevada County, California and to bookstores everywhere this week. Learn all about the hard working wicked on the wild frontier reading Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

The national launch of the book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West will be held on Saturday, February 21 from Noon to 3 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum at 5 Kidder Court in Nevada City, California. The public will be treated to exciting tales about the wicked women of the Old West, delicious apple tarts and lemonade, they’ll learn how to play three card Monte, and can register for a Wicked Women gift package.

For more information contact 530/470-0902 or visit www.chrisenss.com.

Enter now to win a copy of

Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

“One thing there’s no getting around—I’ve been a wicked girl,” confessed the soiled dove. “But if I can’t be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!”

Something wicked is coming to Nevada County, California and to bookstores everywhere next week. Learn all about the hard working wicked on the wild frontier reading

Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

The national launch of the book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West will be held on Saturday, February 21 from Noon to 3 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum at 5 Kidder Court in Nevada City, California. The public will be treated to exciting tales about the wicked women of the Old West, delicious apple tarts and lemonade, they’ll learn how to play three card Monte, and can register for a Wicked Women gift package.

For more information contact 530/470-0902 or visit www.chrisenss.com.

Enter now to win a copy of Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.

Something wicked is coming to Nevada County, California and to bookstores everywhere next week. Learn all about the hard working wicked on the wild frontier reading

Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

The national launch of the book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West will be held on Saturday, February 21 from Noon to 3 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum at 5 Kidder Court in Nevada City, California. The public will be treated to exciting tales about the wicked women of the Old West, delicious apple tarts and lemonade, they’ll learn how to play three card Monte, and can register for a Wicked Women gift package.

For more information contact 530/470-0902 or visit www.chrisenss.com.

Enter now to win a copy of Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.

Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?

Something wicked is coming to Nevada County, California and to bookstores everywhere and you’ll find out then.

The national launch of the book Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West will be held on Saturday, February 21 from Noon to 3 p.m. at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum at 5 Kidder Court in Nevada City, California. The public will be treated to exciting tales about the wicked women of the Old West, delicious apple tarts and lemonade, they’ll learn how to play three card Monte, and can register for a Wicked Women gift package.

For more information contact 530/470-0902 or visit www.chrisenss.com.

Enter now to win a copy of Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Women of the Old West.