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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.

 

Annie Rogers, aka: Della Moore, Maud Williams (18??-19??) - Born in Texas as Della Moore, Annie was working in Fannie Porter's brothel in San Antonio when she met Harvey Logan, better known as Kid Curry. Though Curry had a reputation as the most dangerous member of the Wild Bunch, his affection for the slender, dark-haired girl seemed genuine. They often "presented" themselves as man and wife, but it is unknown if they were actually ever married. On July 3, 1901, the Kid, along with Ben Kilpatrick and O.C. Hanks robbed the Great Northern Coast Railroad near Wagner, Montana, escaping with more than $40,000.

Annie Rogers was Kid Curry's girlfriend

Annie Rogers was Kid Curry's best girl.

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Several months later, Annie was arrested on October 14th in Nashville, Tennessee for passing bank notes that were stolen in the great Northern robbery. Annie spent time in jail until she was acquitted on June 18, 1902.

In the meantime, Curry had also been arrested when he got into a bar fight in Knoxville, Tennessee on December 13, 1901. Captured two days later, he was still in jail when Rogers was released. In November, 1902, he was convicted of multiple charges, including forging stolen bank notes and sentenced to 130 years in prison. However, he escaped on June 27, 1903 and a year later, he participated in robbing the Denver & Rio Grande train near Parachute, Colorado on June 7, 1904. Two days later, a posse caught up with the outlaws and in the confrontation, Logan was wounded. However, rather than go to prison, he took his own life. He was 37 years old.

 

Annie Rogers never saw Harvey Logan again after she was acquitted of passing the bank notes and lived the rest of her life as a law abiding citizen.  More ...

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.

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. More ...

 

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-??) - Arriving in Texas with the first settlers in Stephen F. Austin's colony, 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.

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) ­ Known, along with Susan B. Anthony, as one of the foremost figures of the movement for women's equality, her outrage at being excluded from an anti-slavery convention because of her gender inspired her to co-organize the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. She co-founded the newspaper Revolution, headed the National Woman Suffrage Association for twenty years, and was the first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Belle Starr

Belle Starr, the "BanditQueen"

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Belle Starr, aka:  the “Outlaw Queen” (1848-1889) - Born Myra Maybelle Shirley on February 5, 1848, on a farm near Carthage, Missouri. When she was still a young girl, the entire area would become embroiled in the bloody Kansas-Missouri border war. By the time she was a teenager, she had hooked up with the likes of the Younger brothers and Jesse James. She, herself, became a horse thief, outlaw and part-time prostitute, and became the first woman to be tried for a serious crime by Judge Isaac Parker. She was sentenced to five months in prison for horse theft. In 1889 she was shot in the back and killed by an unknown assailant. Belle was buried at her cabin southwest of Porum, Oklahoma near the Eufuala Dam in Muskogee County. Her daughter Pearl had the following inscription engraved to her tombstone:

"Shed not for her the bitter tear,
Nor give the heart to vain regret,
'Tis but the casket that lies here,
The gem that fills it sparkles yet."

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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.

 

 

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