Anne Hennis Trotter Bailey
Anne Hennis Trotter Bailey was a US frontier character whose exploits appear to be a mix of fact and legend.
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Mary Olympic
Mary Olympic’s life at Katmai represents a subsistence lifestyle in Alaska that has endured for thousands of years and continues today. Her recollections illuminate the practice of reindeer herding from a time when very few other first-hand accounts exist.
Marilyn Strack
In 1973, Missy Voigt and Marilyn Strack were hired as seasonal rangers at Muir Woods. Strack worked at Muir Woods for over two years, and she was one of the first disabled employees at the park.
Ellen Courtenay
1800s Irish woman who denounced a man who seduced, impregnated and abandoned her
Dr Helena Liu
As an intersectional feminist academic and activist, Helena Liu set up Disorient, a website providing important learning, teaching and research resources on feminisms, intersectionality and activisms.
Elizabeth Mason
In May of 1854, 90-year-old Elizabeth Mason, a “free woman of color” from Campbell County, Virginia, appeared before a local Justice of the Peace to apply for a military widow’s pension.
Grace Sherwood
Grace Sherwood was the defendant in colonial Virginia‘s most notorious witch trial, which took place in Princess Anne County in 1706.
Eva C McNally
Yosemite National Park Park Ranger 1926-1927
Kitty Foster
Kitty Foster was a free African American woman who owned property just south of the University of Virginia, the site of which has been memorialized by the school.
Lucy Burwell
Lucy Burwell is best known for rejecting the fervent and sometimes menacing courtship of Governor Sir Francis Nicholson, contributing to a petition against Nicholson and Queen Anne ultimately removing him from office.