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When Dolly was only 14, they made their professional debut on radio station WIL in St. And although this audience preferred the girls' versions of cowboy and western material, the sisters themselves personally preferred pop music. The sisters began their duo the way many talented children do - by entertaining family and friends in the comfort of their home. They grew up listening to cowboy songs from the Southwest, and wound up getting the credit for spreading this regional influence into the blend of what developed into country & western music. Louis, Missouri, in 19, respectively (they later claimed Muleshoe, Texas as their hometown to bolster their cowgirl image. Sisters Mildred and Dorothy "Dolly" Good were born in St. "Girls of the Golden West" is a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.The opening round of biographical details in the story of the Girls of the Golden West sets the tone with names that seem properly ironic. "Girls of the Golden West" is a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. is included "Girls of the Golden West," a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. A bronze sculpture of "Sacagawea" by Harry Jackson. Girls of the Golden West is a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. "The Potter, Maria (Martinez)," by Willard Stone, is included in "Girls of the Golden West," a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. is included in "Girls of the Golden West," a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
"Wishing for a Child" by Dan Gerhartz is included in "Girls of the Golden West," a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Beckert" by Leonard McMurry is included in "Girls of the Golden West," a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
Sharer is featured in "Girls of the Golden West," a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. +4 +7 A portrait of actress "Frances Dee McCrea" by Bettina Steinke is included in "Girls of the Golden West," a new exhibit at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Like the men more often depicted in Western art, he said women on the frontier faced significant struggles. They were bringing the culture as the culture-bearers," said Grauer, who is also the museum's curator of cowboy collections and Western art. Although the population disparity was pretty drastic initially, as women came, then settlements came, schools, churches, etc. Men get most of the attention, but generally women were right there with them. They were very much side-by-side with men. "But women were also right out on the frontline on the frontier for sure. Congress in 1916, four years before the 19th Amendment was ratified. "That's part of the Western heritage story is talk about those Western women who led that charge."įor instance, Montanans elected Republican candidate Jeannette Rankin as the first woman to serve in the U.S. officials in the national Congress," Grauer said.
"Not only is it the right thing to do, but Western women led the way in the women's right to vote and in fact elected some of the first (women) U.S. 'Girls of the Golden West' is a way to bring things out of the vault that haven't been seen in quite a while, and there's tremendous variety." Anytime we can show those off and highlight them, we want to take advantage of that. We have terrific art collections and terrific collections across the board. "To bring more things out of the permanent collection, out of the vault, is always exciting for me. "We wanted to highlight our permanent collection and show as many disparate views of women across the board - from different socioeconomic levels to different cultures - to show that it was truly multicultural (in the West) regardless of gender," said Michael Grauer, the museum's McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture.
From a Hispanic woman dramatically draped in her "Mantilla," or chapel veil, to "An Irish Lass" peering shyly from her canvas, one hallway at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is currently for the girls.įeaturing works spanning the 19th and 20th centuries - including oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, hand-colored engraving, photographs, pastels, plaster and bronze - the new exhibit "Girls of the Golden West" gives visitors insight into the stories of the women of the American West.
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