Catch up on recent Western Women columns by Jan Cleere
March 8 marks International Women's Day. Here are 25+ stories ofΒ Arizona women who made their mark in the early history of the territory and the state.
Hart took on the job, in which she was senior nurse, at Flagstaff's hospital for the indigent from 1920-38 while also being mother to 10 children.
From our Western Women series: Samantha Fallon provided rooms for Wyatt Earp's prisoners because Tombstone didn't have a jail. She also boasted of hosting Ulysses S. Grant II.Β
βGood schools do not happen. People working together build them," said Best, 1902-1983, who oversaw schools, many of them one-room schoolhouses in remote spots of northern Arizona.Β
Asenath Phelps Alkire's life onΒ The Triangle Bar, one of Arizonaβs oldest cattle ranches, began in 1889.Β Β
She almost solitarily tended to those needs across hundreds of reservation miles in the 1950s and '60s for theΒ U.S. Indian Service.
Janet Bragg lectured throughout the state and volunteered at the Pima Air and Space Museum.
As the daughter of a calvary officer, she spent her youth moving from one army post to another with her family.
First place housed members of Arizona Legislature.
βIn the heart of the Pinal Mountains in Arizona, and the center of what is known as the Apache country, is a little valley of not more than 15…
While in private practice, she represented gangster John Dillinger after his arrest in Tucson.
Maricopa master potter Ida Redbird was born in 1892 on the Gila River Indian Reservation.Β
Longtime Tucson resident often vilified for advocating about birth control.
Helped raised money to restore the town's stately courthouse, other landmarks.
School on northwest side is named for longtime educator.
Columnist moved to Paradise Valley, Arizona, in 1971 after falling in love with the desert climate and amazing sunsets.
She was found not guilty in 1931 of killing her husband.
She was successful in passing the bill to have the song βArizonaβ adopted as the state anthem.
Estelle Buehman believed to have started first kindergarten in Arizona territoryFor Star subscribers: Later, she and husband owned successful photography business in Tucson.
For Star subscribers: Travel party endured several attacks as they crossed Arizona to Fort Yuma.
"A ranchwoman who writes," Rak penned books in the 1930s and '40s that described the hard work, helped along by humor, of maintaining the 22,000-acre spread she and her husband ran. A UA scholarship in her name still assists students in agriculture and home economics.
She led both the Tucson Museum of Art and the Arizona Historical Society Museum.
She was arrested several times in Bisbee.
She was the subject of a book, movie called "Chicken Every Sunday."
She spent years working and advocating for Arizona schools.
Katharine Cochranβs account of the incident between the soldiers at Fort Apache and White Mountain Apaches illustrates the dangers military families faced on the frontier.
After her husband died, Sue Summers resumed her career as teacher and taught the children of Florence for many years.
In the fall of 1910, the Louisa Wetherill and her husband opened the Kayenta Trading Post and lodge in the heart of Monument Valley in Northern Arizona.Β
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For over 40 years, Sarah Gorby cared for the animals of the desert and earned the reputation as a cantankerous individual with a big heart.
