The curtain rises and authors JoAnn Chartier and Chris Enss shine the spotlight on 14 entertaining women who sang, danced, acted in plays, performed equestrienne feats, and captured the hearts of the miners and homesteaders of the Frontier West.
The curtain rises and authors JoAnn Chartier and Chris Enss shine the spotlight on 14 entertaining women who sang, danced, acted in plays, performed equestrienne feats, and captured the hearts of the miners and homesteaders of the Frontier West.
Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Best Scholarly Nonfiction Book. Enss's most recent works are The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont "The Fifth Marx Brother," and The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier.
Inhaltsangabe
(1) Acknowledgments (2) Introduction (3) Maude Adams The Most Popular Actress in America (4) Mary Anderson Self made Star (5) Sarah Bernhardt The Divine Sarah (6) Mrs. Leslie Carter Passionate Player (7) Caroline Chapman Shakespeare to Slapstick (8) Catherine Hayes The Irish Prima Donna (9) Matilda Heron Star of the American Theater (10) Lily Langtry The Jersey Lily (11) Adah Menken The Frenzy of Frisco (12) Helena Modjeska Polish Phenomenon (13) Lucille Mullhall Cowgirl (14) Kate Rockwell Flame of the Yukon (15) Lillian Russell America's Beauty (16) Sarah Kirby Stark Pioneer Manager
(1) Acknowledgments (2) Introduction (3) Maude Adams The Most Popular Actress in America (4) Mary Anderson Self made Star (5) Sarah Bernhardt The Divine Sarah (6) Mrs. Leslie Carter Passionate Player (7) Caroline Chapman Shakespeare to Slapstick (8) Catherine Hayes The Irish Prima Donna (9) Matilda Heron Star of the American Theater (10) Lily Langtry The Jersey Lily (11) Adah Menken The Frenzy of Frisco (12) Helena Modjeska Polish Phenomenon (13) Lucille Mullhall Cowgirl (14) Kate Rockwell Flame of the Yukon (15) Lillian Russell America's Beauty (16) Sarah Kirby Stark Pioneer Manager
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