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Dora Hand, aka: Fannie Keenan, (1844-1878) - A celebrated actress
and variety show entertainer, Dora was married to a musician named
Theodore Hand. However, she divorced him in Indiana, later landing in
Memphis, Tennessee and in
St. Louis,
Missouri in 1876. By 1878, she was entertaining the many men in
the lawless town of
Dodge City,
Kansas.
Appearing in several variety shows under her stage name of Fannie Keenan,
the actress was staying at Mayor James Kelley’s house, as he was out of
town. It is unknown as to whether Dora knew that the mayor had recently
been in a brawl with a man named James Kennedy, the son of a Tascosa,
Texas
cattleman. But, for the actress, the dispute would be fatal.
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Dodge City in
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Kennedy had been sent with a
herd of cattle to
Dodge City
and while the cowboy was in Mayor Kelley’s saloon, Kelley threw him out
for being drunk and disorderly. Humiliated, Kennedy swore
revenge upon the mayor. A short time later, Kennedy briefly left
Dodge City,
but returned to exact his revenge upon Kelley. The mayor; however, was not
home, and in his bed, instead, was Dora Hand. Late in the night of his
return, Kennedy rode to Kelley’s residence and fired four gunshots into
the house before fleeing. One shot struck Dora in her right side, killing
her instantly. Hearing the gunfire, officers
Jim Masterson and
Wyatt
Earp hurried to the house to find Dora Hand dead.
Witnesses stated they had seen Kennedy riding away from
Dodge City
and a posse was formed to go after him. Soon,
Bat Masterson,
Bill
Tilghman,
William Duffy,
Charlie Bassett,
and
Wyatt
Earp
tracked the killer to Meade,
Kansas,
Inevitably, Kennedy didn't want to be brought in and a gunfight ensued and
Kennedy was wounded in his shooting arm. He was brought back to
Dodge,
where he recovered.
Though
Kennedy was tried, he was acquitted of the murder due to lack of evidence.
But, time would get its just revenge when Kennedy was killed three years
later in a gunfight. In the meantime, Dora Hand was buried in
Dodge City's
Boothill Cemetery.
 Pearl Hart, aka: Pearl Bywater, Pearl Taylor, Mrs. L.P. Keele
(1871-19??) - Born as Pearl Taylor of French descent in
Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, this petite and attractive young girl would
grow up to become one of the only female stagecoach robbers in the
American West.
After marrying a seductive gambler when
she was just 17, the pair attended the Columbian Exposition in
Chicago,
Illinois
in 1893 where
Pearl
became enamored of the
Old
West
when she attended several
Wild
West type shows. She soon left her husband, heading through
Colorado
and finally to
Arizona,
where she hooked up with a miner named
Joe Boot. Among other smaller petty crimes, the pair robbed a
stagecoach between Florence and Globe,
Arizona
on May 30, 1899. Taking about $450 and a revolver, they were soon
apprehended and
Hart
spent two years in the Yuma Territorial Prison. Though her life of
crime was short-lived, she became a legend known as the "lady bandit."
After being released she went to Kansas City and the rest of her life
is blurred in history.
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Josephine Hensley; aka:
Chicago Joe
(1846-1899)
- The Queen of Helena,
Montana's
Red Light District and one of the city's most prominent business women
during the city's early days.
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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
(1841?-1891) - The first Native American woman known to secure a
copyright and to publish in the English language. Her book, Life Among
the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, is an autobiographical account of
her people during their first forty years of contact with explorers and
settlers.
Julie Ward Howe (1819-1910)
- Born in New York City on May 27, 1819, Julie Ward would grow up to
become a prominent abolitionist, social activist, poet, and is most
famous for having authored "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In
1843, she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe who founded the Perkins
Institute for the Blind and the couple had six children. She also
published a number magazine articles., travel books, and plays. Later in
life she became active in the women's rights movement, where she played a
prominent role in several suffrage organizations. She died on
October 17, 1910 at the age of 91.
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) Early champion of religious
liberty and free speech, this midwife was put on trial in 1637 for her
outspoken views. The Massachusetts General Court found her guilty of
sedition and banished her from the Colony.
 Zerelda "Zee" Mimms James (1845-1900)
- Zee was
Jesse James first cousin, but
this did not stop the pair from courting. The couple
was engaged for nine years while the
James-Younger Gang was in full swing, before they finally married on
April 24, 1874.
The couple had two children before the
James-Younger Gang ceased to exist with the capture of the
Younger brothers
during the Northfield, Minnesota raid in 1876. Jesse
then started the "new" James Gang continuing to rob trains, the
last of which occurred on September 7, 1881 near Glendale,
Missouri.
When
Bob Ford killed
Jesse James on April 3, 1882, he did so in Jesse's home, with
Zee and her children nearby in the kitchen.
Though most would have thought that the outlaw left a wealthy widow, that
was not the case, and in fact,
Zee had to sell most everything in
the household in order to pay the creditors. After his death, she suffered
from terrible depression and donning entirely black clothing, she never
changed out of her "widows weeds." More
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Mollie Johnson - Referred to as the Queen of
the Blondes, Johnson was a leading Madam during
Deadwood,
South Dakota's
gold boom.
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“Mother” Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930)
- Labor organizer who championed the
cause of social justice and devoted herself to the struggle against the
poors' hours, pay and working conditions of railroad, textile and mine
workers.
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