River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-05-06
suocessrul women.

Successful Women.
The correspondent of an eastern pa
per, writing from Helena, Montana,
gives some graphic sketches of women
who are illustrations of North
western pluck and energy. The
writer says: There are some
real old ladies out here who
have taken up claims, who run a dairy,
or keep store. but who are leetle too
aged to think of matrimOny. One
dame of this description has ranch
store out on the prairie near Living
stone, rides horse, and shoots like a
man, keeps "A Post Office, and is the
owner of 100 acres, lately the property
of Uncle Sam. Another lady living on
Boulder Creek, named Saran David
son, shot bear in January last, and
with the bounty received for it as well
as the sale of the meat and hide, she
paid for sewing machine.
The women of this northwestern
country are endowed with plenty of
pluck and grip. One evening lately,
a herd of Arizona goats, which were
being herded by Miss Teresa Tallert
on Lost River, came home early and
rushed for the corral, a heavy log
concern, eight feet high The gates
were opened and the herd let in, after
which the little lady, dashlng over the
prairie, mounted on her fiery broncho.
secured the foothills but found no
cause for alarm.
In the night Miss Tallert was aroused
by her dog whining at her ear. and
getting up, discovered some wild
animals in the corral. She went in
and found four mountain lions, and
without moments hesitation attacked
them with an axe. Two of the lions
Jumped the corral and fled. The
other two rushed toward her. She
dealt one blow with the axe, LAYING
its rump open to the bone; then both
fled. The next morning fifty of the
valuable goats were found dead and
thirty wounded, fourteen of the latter
dying afterward.
A mountain lion attacked the cattle
of Ben Mason, on Powder River, only
last Sunday, and killed two heif-
ers and COW. Mr.. Mason was absent
at the time, but his wife took up arms
against the beast, followed him through
the snow for some distance, overlook
and shot him. j. w. Proctor of Bill
ings had occasion to visit the ranch of
Tom Wadsworth on the Musselshell
last week. Wadsworth has band of
several hundred of the finest horses
there are on the north side of the yell
lowstone River, and has also wife who
is an expert hOrsewoman. Mrs. Wads-
worth is not only an accomplished ri
der, but, as 4 huntress, can take the
laurels from the Marquis de Mores,
Lady Florence Dixie, and all the other
ladies who make pretentions in that
direction. Mrs. Wadsworth chases
antelope on horseback. shoots them
down while going at full gallOp, and,
in fact, combines the arts of ciyiliza-
ton with the skill of the aborigine.
Now, Proctor is crack shot, and with
somewhat of a reputation to back him
up, and he was rather astonished and
taken aback when Mrs. WadswOrth
challenged him to a shooting match.
They set up a target, and Proctor was
beaten fairly. Mrs. Wadsworth making
the top score.
After this unexpected defeat, Proctor
headed up Goulding Creek for Bull
Mountains, and when he supposed he
was the only white man in that region,
came to another ranch hid away
among the mountains from which
ranged away about two hundred of as
sleek looking cattle as one could wish
to see. When approaching the ranch,
Proctor met a young lady all alone on
horseback coming down a rock noun
tain path, whom he describes as the in
carnation of ETHEREAL beauty. After
some talk about the weather and stock,
he was invited to partake of her hos
pitality, which he accepted gracefully.
Proctor did not know who his ia + en-
tertainer was, but everybody in this
section knows her to be a young
shepherdess named Nina Roman, who
is ranching it all alone among the
mountains. Proctor christened heI
the belle of Bull Mountains.
In the western part of Montana
among the mining camps, there are
also some strange characters seen once
in a while. In the camp at Yogo a
colOred woman named Mile Ringgold
has quite reputation as a prospectOr.
She spends most of her time in the
mountains, and handles the pick and
shovel with as much vigor and deX-
terity as man. She was the pi-
oneer woman of Yogo, and ran~the
first hotel at that place in the early
days. BY economy and close attention
to business she has come into poss-
ession of some very valuable proper
ties, and is reality to-day bonanza
queen. The latest reports from Yogo
states that she is the owner of the fam
Gus Garfield mining lode, one of the
richest silver mines in the West.