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• Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973) ­ A suffragist, Rankin became the first female elected to the House of Representatives in 1916. A Republican from Montana, she campaigned on a platform of peace and voted against the United States' entry into World War I.

• Delia Haskett Rawson (1861-1949) - Becoming a driver at the age of 14, Delia was the first girl stage driver and maybe the youngest to ever to carry the U.S. mail in California.

• Toby Riddle - See Kaitchkona Winema

• Annie Rogers, aka: Della Moore, Maud Williams (18??-19??) - Involved with Kid Curry, Annie was a "member" of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.

• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) ­ Political and social reformer, humanitarian, and outspoken crusader, this First Lady championed causes of social justice worldwide and as a United Nations delegate, chaired the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

• Lillian Russell (1860-1922) - Russell was a popular actress and singer.

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• Sacagawea (1790?-1812?) ­ A Shoshone Indian woman, she was captured by an enemy tribe who eventually sold her to a French Canadian trapper she later married. In 1804, Lewis and Clark, her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, was hired by the expedition as an interpreter. Sacagawea became an integral part of the expedition.

• Deborah Samson Gannett (1760-1827) - The first known woman to impersonate a man in the U.S. Army, she served as a soldier during the American Revolution.

• Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) ­ Pioneering crusader for the legalization of birth control, she battled the nation's government and courts to open America's first birth control clinic, founded the Natural Birth Control League, Planned Parenthood of America, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

• Sarah Jane "Sally" Newman Skull (1817-??) - Sally was known for her many husbands, her horse trading, her aim with a pistol, her forceful language, and for hauling cotton and critical supplies for the Confederacy. But, mostly she was known as a woman who's husbands mysteriously died or disappeared.

• Squirrel Tooth Alice - See Mary Elizabeth "Libby" Thompson

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) ­ Known, along with Susan B. Anthony, as one of the foremost figures of the movement for women's equality.

• Belle Starr, aka: the “Outlaw Queen” (1848-1889) - Hooking up with the likes the Younger brothers and Jesse James at a young age, Starr became an outlaw herself and was the first woman to be tried for a serious crime by Judge Isaac Parker.

• Lucy Stone (1818-1893) ­ A pioneering leader in the women suffrage movement, she founded the American Woman Suffrage Association.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) ­ Author and poet, she wrote the biggest bestseller of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel, which first appeared in serialized version in National Era magazine, was the first major American work in which a black man appeared as the central hero.