 | Elizabeth Freeman "Mum Bet." Watercolor on ivory by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick, 1811. A scar on her forehead. She won her freedom through a legal suit. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02215-3695. Our thanks to The Nassachusetts Historical Society. |
 | "Deborah Sampson" (1760-1827) served one and a half years in Continental Army; her husband received "widow's pension" Location unknown. |
 | Four Mormon women, all but one plural wives first of Joseph Smith, then of Brigham Young, (l.-r.) Zina D.H. Young, Bathsheba W. Smith, Emily D.P. Young, and Eliza R. Snow. Courtesy of the Church Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 E North Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT 84150. All rights reserved. Our thanks to the Church. |
 | Jacob Maentel, "Portrait of Mrs. Jonathan Jaquess, Jr. (Rebeckah Fraser Rankin)," Posey County, IN, 1841, watercolor and ink on wove paper; primary support: 17 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. Courtesy of The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776. 1959.300.7. All rights reserved. Our thanks to The Museum. |
 | William Sidney Mount, "Eel Spearing at Setauket," 1845; oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in.; black and white version of Slide 2116 The Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association, 2 Chestnut St, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Gift of Stephen C. Clark. |
 | Blacksmith shop of Thomas Potter family, with children and grand-children, Scofield, UT, 1900 Copyright holder unknown. George E. Anderson photo. Collection of Rell G. Francis. Western Mining and Railroad Museum, 296 South Main, Helper, UT 84526. Photo #: 99-3-18 |
 | Tompkins H. Matteson, "The Meeting of Hetty and Hist," 1857, oil on canvas, 24 x 19 in. / 61 x 48.3 cm. Copyright holder unknown. From James Fenimore Cooper, "The Deerslayer," 1857 edition |
 | A young African American woman, 1850. "Variety of American National Origins." Courtesy of The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, 900 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. All rights reserved. Our thanks to The Museum. In Bernard A. Weisberger and the Eds. of American Heritage, "The American Heritage History of the American People," 1971, p. 7. 8.8.3 |
 | A "Parlor House," Creede, Colorado, early 1890s. Bob Ford's girls. The whore with the Heart of Gold is not entirely a stylized myth of television westerns. She existed, all right. The prostitute, of course, was the first woman to pursue the fortune-seeking male into the wilderness, and as paradoxical as it seems, she did more to tame the West than a hundred marshals. For one thing, she got the miners and traders and ranchers to bathe, if only during their periodic jaunts into town. She also imported the only culture and refinement to be found west of St. Louis. See also WO-C-14. Collection of Fred and Jo Mazzulla. In Oliver O. Jensen, "American Album," American Heritage, 1968, p. 304. 8.8.3 |
 | A brothel. Bob Ford's Girls, Creede, Colorado, early 1890s. Detail of WO-C-6. Collection of Fred and Jo Mazzulla. In Oliver O. Jensen, "American Album," 1968, p. 304. 8.8.3 |
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