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title	:	Red River Women Women of the West Series (Plano, Tex.)
author	:	McLeRoy, Sherrie.
publisher	:	Republic of Texas Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1556225016
print isbn13	:	9781556225017
ebook isbn13	:	9780585230368
language	:	English
subject	Women pioneers--Red River Valley (Tex.-La.)--Biography, Women pioneers--Texas--Biography, Red River Valley (Tex.-La.)--Biography, Texas--Biography.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	F392.R3M38 1996eb
ddc	:	976.6/603/0922
subject	:	Women pioneers--Red River Valley (Tex.-La.)--Biography, Women pioneers--Texas--Biography, Red River Valley (Tex.-La.)--Biography, Texas--Biography.

Page i Red River Women Sherrie S. McLeRoy

Page ii Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McLeRoy, Sherrie S. Red River Women / by Sherrie S. McLeRoy. p. cm. (Women of the West series) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55622-501-6 1. Women pioneersRed River Valley (Tex.-La.)Biography. 2. Women pioneersTexasBiography. 3. Red River Valley (Tex.-La.)Biography. 4. TexasBiography. I. Title. II. Series: Women of the West series (Plano, Tex.) F392. R3M38 1996 976.6'603'0922 dc20 [B] 96-7326 CIP Copyright 1996, Sherrie S. McLeRoy All Rights Reserved Republic of Texas Press is an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Wordware Publishing, Inc. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 1-55622-501-6 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9605 All inquiries for volume purchases of this book should be addressed to Wordware Publishing, Inc., at 1506 Capital Avenue, Plano, Texas 75074. Telephone inquiries may be made by calling: (214) 423-0090

Page iii For my daughter, Ann Elizabeth

Page v Contents Introduction vii Acknowledgements xi Chapter One Sophia Suttonfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter 1 Chapter Two Lydia Starr Hunter McPherson 35 Chapter Three Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens 65 Chapter Four Olive Ann Oatman Fairchild 103 Chapter Five Lucy Ann Thornton Kidd-Key 129 Chapter Six Ela Hockaday 163 Chapter Seven Edna Browning Kahly Gladney 189 Chapter Eight Enid Mae Justin 217 Bibliography 245 Index 269

Page vii Introduction They have been called "gentle tamers," though some of the more outrageous women of Texas would probably have disdained being called "gentle" anythings. The conventions of the Victorian world decreed that they live sedately amongst children, teacups, and servants, an ornament to one man and his home, pleasant to look at but no longer really necessary for the survival of the family in the brash Industrial Age. But the Texas frontier dared its women to adhere to society's rules and then threw in their way every conceivable obstacle: Indians, heat, blue northers, bugs, wind, isolation, and violence. Some women met that challenge, countless others withered and died in the trying. And some took the challenge and flung it back in Texas' teeth. Red River Women tells the stories of eight of those defiant women, who endured and thrived because they had the strength, the intelligence, and the guts to make their mark in a society ruled by and for men. In proper Victorian tradition, they tended to use wiles and charm to get what they wanted, but if that didn't work, they did what they wanted anyway. These eight women share several links. All were born during the Victorian era (18371901), and the cultural mores of that period ruled their formative years, if not their entire lives. They were not the stereotype we "moderns" tend to have of Victorian women: frail, languid, in constant need of smelling salts and fainting couches. Instead they typify the energy and savvy of the era's frontier, and they dared to venture from the

Page viii genteel, urban confines of the East and South to carve new lives on the edge of civilization. They share a simple link of geography, too, for all lived on the bawdy, brawling Red River for at least some critical part of their years. The accomplishments of these eight women in business, literature, education, and social work are remarkable even by today's more liberated standards, but, shamefully, their achievements are little known. Only two of the eight have been the subject of biographies: Sophia Porter in an earlier work by this author, and Enid Justin, in an autobiography she dictated to a writer. Their labors have been overlooked and they themselves branded as "minor historical figures, not worth writing about."

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