This Day…

1964 – Helen Keller receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with 4 other women: Dr. Lena Edwards, Lynn Fontainne, Dr. Helen Taussig, and Leontyne Price

1925 – Katherine White, joined the “New Yorker” and worked there until 1957, married E.B. White in 1929, edited Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Taylor, John Updike, Mary McCarthy and others

1964 – Helen Keller received the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside four other women: Dr. Lena Edwards, Lynn Fontanne, Dr. Helen Taussig, and Leontyne Price

1857 – During debates on the Oregon Constitution, a motion was introduced to strike the word “male” from voting rights clauses to advance women’s suffrage (though it was defeated at the time).

1921 – Miss America Pageant Began: The two-day Inter-City Beauty contest opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Margaret Gorman won the initial event and was later retroactively named the first Miss America.

1909 – Hildegard Peplau, a nurse educator, created the foundation for modern nursing in her 1952 book, Interpersonal Relations in Nursing, enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II, served in England and New York and then in the New York Women’s Disturbed Service, president of American Nurses Association, 1970-72 is born.

1920 –  The ongoing fight for women’s suffrage saw critical developments around this time, closely following Tennessee’s pivotal ratification of the 19th Amendment in late August.

It’s always exciting to see The Last Ride: Outlaw Laura Bullion and the Wild Bunch finding new readers.

KSEN AM/K96 FM in Montana recently featured Laura’s remarkable story in “She Was the Wild Bunch’s Only Known Female Train Robber.” The feature highlights Laura’s place in Wild Bunch history and the Great Northern train robbery and the station even included The Last Ride in an on-air giveaway.

Read the KSEN AM/K96 FM feature
https://ksenam.com/outlaw-laura-bullion-western-history

Just as gratifying is hearing from readers. One Amazon reader gave The Last Ride five stars, writing: “Chris has a gift for finding the human story inside history.”

The reader especially appreciated discovering the woman behind the outlaw legend – Laura’s relationship with Ben Kilpatrick, her years with the Wild Bunch, the Great Northern robbery, prison, and the extraordinary life she built after leaving the outlaw world behind.

The review concludes that Laura “lived an extraordinary life” and that The Last Ride brings “her story out of the shadows.”

That is exactly what I hoped to accomplish with this book. Laura Bullion has spent far too long as a supporting character in stories about famous men. The Last Ride puts her where she belongs – at the center of her own story.

Thank you to KSEN AM/K96 FM for helping introduceview. The Wild Bunch may be gone, but Laura Bullion still has a Laura to a new audience, and to every reader who has picked up the book, recommended it, or taken the time to leave a re story to tell.

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1914 – The Women’s Defense Relief Corps was formed in Britain as women mobilized to support the World War I home front and advocate for broader social roles.

1920 – U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed the proclamation on August 26 officially adding the 19th Amendment to the Constitution and enfranchising women after a more than 70-year movement.