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I tried to draw blanne drag but now they just look like two lesbians. hashtag Yuri i suppose

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These Gutsy Frontier Women Paved the Way for Abby's Character In Walker: Independence

These women definitely left their mark.

Wow! There are some amazing women highlighted in this article! The only one I had already heard of was Sacagawea, so it was a treat to learn about other strong frontier women!

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ANNE BAILEY // FRONTIER SCOUT

“She was a British-born American storyteller and frontier scout who served in the fights of the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. Her single-person ride in search of an urgently needed powder supply for the endangered Clendenin's Settlement (present-day Charleston, West Virginia) was used as the template for Charles Robb's 1861 poem "Anne Bailey's Ride". She is known as the Heroine of the Kanawha Valley.”

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(Drawing of Anne Bailey, frontispiece of Virgil A. Lewis's Life and Times of Anne Bailey, the Pioneer Heroine)

Anne Bailey - Frontier scout

Anne Bailey (1742-1845) was born in Liverpool, England. The daughter of a soldier, her parents taught her to read and write. She was orphaned at 19 and left for America to live with relatives in Staunton, Virginia. 

She later married Richard Trotter, a frontiersman, who died in a war against the Shawnee in 1774. Anne decided to avenge him in battle and entrusted her young son to a neighbor. She then joined the Virginian militia as a volunteer scout.

Anne quickly established herself as a colorful character. She was described as being: “short and stout, and of coarse masculine appearance”. She usually wore a combination of men and women’s clothing, such as a skirt and petticoat paired with a man’s jacket. She also went armed with a hatchet, knife and long rifle. Anne was a crack shot, good with a knife and greatly intimidated men. She boasted that she could “chop as well as any man”, drank hard liquor and liked to flaunt her skill in boxing. 

Anne rode on long distances between the  forts to carry messages. During the American revolution, she expressed her support for the revolutionary cause and traveled to recruit men for the Virginian militia. She also regaled people with stories of her adventures. She once said that she was forced to leave her horse behind while being pursued by Shawnees and hid in a log. Her pursuers sat on the very log she was hiding under. When they finally left, she went to their camp and took back her horse while they where sleeping. Anne also reportedly killed a number of enemies and the Native Americans thought she was possessed and couldn’t be harmed by bullets or arrows. Because of her character and her stories, she came to be nicknamed “Mad Anne”. 

In 1785, Anne married John Bailey, a ranger and frontiersman. In 1788, the couple went to Fort Lee as the conflicts between the settlers and the natives  raged on. She kept acting as a scout, informing the soldiers of the natives’ movements. 

Her most famous exploit took place in 1791 when she single-handedly saved Fort Lee. The fort was surrounded by natives and the garrisons was running out of gunpowder. Anne volunteered to get more. She left the fort on her horse,  rode a hundred miles across the wilderness to the closest fort where she acquired powder. She was offered an escort, but refused and then went back, breaking through native lines to resupply the fort. This action earned her the respect of both allies and foes.

Anne acted as a scout until 1795, when the Greenville treaty ended the Indian Wars. As John Bailey died in 1802, she went living with her son. She built her own cabin on the bank of the Ohio rivers. At the age of 50, she still hunted bears and established a postal service among Ohio’s southern settlements. At the age of nearly 80, she still used to walk 9 miles each way to visit friends in Gallipolis. She also mad a point to teach unruly young men good manners. Anne ultimately died peacefully on November 22, 1825.

References:

Howlett Charles F., “Bailey, Anne Trotter”, in: Bernard Cook (ed.), Women and war, an historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present vol.1

“Mad Ann Bailey – Scout & Indian Fighter”

Pegg Lamphier A., Welch Rosanne, Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia

Van Gugt William E., British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900

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Today’s Warrior Women Wednesday drawing: Anne Bailey!

Liz usually proofs these, so it’s likely rife with misspellings.

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Come le donne Maasai del Kenya aiutano a fare i cosmetici di Lush

Come le donne Maasai del Kenya aiutano a fare i cosmetici di Lush

Questo articolo di Marco Werman [en, come tutti i link seguenti] per The World fa parte della serie Owning It ed è apparso originariamente su PRI.org il 16 dicembre 2015; è ripubblicato qui nell’ambito di un accordo di condivisione dei contenuti.

Il viaggio in macchina dalla capitale del Kenya Nairobi a Twala, nella contea di Laikipia, dura un giorno. Gli ultimi 80 chilometri prima di arrivare al

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TORONTO (May 27, 2014 ) – The Toronto Public Library Board has appointed Anne Bailey to the position of Acting City Librarian, effective June 30, 2014. Bailey is currently Director, Branch Libraries and responsible for the operations of all neighbourhood...

Our City Librarian is stepping down this coming June.

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On February 25, the students behind Our History livetweeted during an episode of Community Conversation on WSKG Radio that featured coordinating professor Anne Bailey. Listen here and check out their tweets at #wskghistory!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As we look back on that part of our history, what progress have we made? While race relations have improved in some ways, echoes of that struggle still exist today. Some point to the election of Barack Obama as proof that we live in a post-racial world - is that true? Is post-racial something we should even strive for? Crystal Sarakas hosts this discussion.