• Biddy Mason (1818-1891) - Entrepreneur and one of first African-American women to own land in California.

• Margaret Mead (1901-1978) ­ Internationally known social scientist, environmentalist, and spokesperson for social and intellectual issues, she introduced the world to anthropology through her 1928 bestseller Coming of Age in Samoa, Her pioneering research and new techniques of fieldwork revolutionized the field of anthropology.

• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) - Actress, painter and poet.

• F.M. Miller - Female U.S. Deputy Marshal. Commissioned out of the federal court at Paris, Texas, she was the only female deputy working in the Indian Territory in 1891. Known to always wear a cowboy hat and adorned with a gun belt filled with cartridges and a Colt pistol, she had a reputation as a fearless and efficient officer who locked numerous outlaws. The attractive brunette, who was described as having charming manners, also carried a winchester rifle strapped to her saddle and was an expert shot and superb horsewoman.

• Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) ­The first American woman astronomer and the director of the observatory at Vassar College.

• Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) ­ An ordained Quaker minister, she was an outspoken abolitionist and pioneering activist in the women's suffrage movement.

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• Carry A. Nation (1846-1930) ­ Prohibitionist reformer, she gained fame for wielding a hatchet while destroying saloons.

• Natawista - See Natawista Culbertson

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• Annie Oakley, aka: Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee (1860-1926) ­ An excellent markswoman, Oakley made her living demonstrating her amazing ability to hit her target. As star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, she traveled the world.

• Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) ­ Known as the greatest American woman artist of the 20th century, her paintings are noted for their abstract colors and shapes in depicting flowers, nature and the American landscape.

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• Cynthia Ann Parker (1825?-1871?) - The mother of Comanche Chief, Quannah Parker, Cynthia  was captured as a child by a Comanche War Party. She adapted to the Indian ways, married and had three children. She was "rescued" by Texas Rangers in 1860 but was never happy again.

• Charley Parkhurst, aka: One Eyed Charley, Mountain Charley, Six-Horse Charley (1812-1879) - Parkhurst was a tobacco chewing, cussing, gambling California stage driver.

• Rosa Parks (1913-2005) ­ By refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, this hardworking seamstress set off a thirteen month bus boycott and a long chain of civil rights protests. The result was the national attention of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a  Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation on buses.

• Alice Paul (1885-1977) ­ Activist and suffragist who organized the 1913 women's rights march through Washington, D.C. and founded the Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage, a militant branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

• Frances Perkins (1880-1965) ­ A social and political reformer, Perkins became the first woman appointed to the New York State Industrial Commission and the first female member of a United States Cabinet, heading the Department of Labor.

• Etta Place (1878-19??) - Involved with the Sundance Kid, Etta was a "member" of the Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.

• Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904) - An African American abolitionist, businesswoman, and entrepreneur.

• Poker Alice - See Alice Ivers Tubbs

• Fannie Porter (1873-19??) - Porter ran one of the most luxurious brothels in Texas at the turn of the century, often harboring Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.

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