Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Deb-Carpenter-Nolting offers stories, songs, and poems about women who left footprints on history by stepping out of place.

Learn about Helga Estby, who walked across America in 1896. Then there’s Pearl Hart, female stagecoach robber. Consider Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young’s 19th wife, who was instrumental in getting polygamy outlawed. Nebraska’s own Mari Sandoz went against the norm of romanticizing the West by writing the realities. Another Nebraska legend, Tad Lucas, lady bronc rider, was the only person inducted into all three Cowboy Halls of Fame.

These are a few of the not-so-well-behaved women introduced in the program.

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Columbus Public Library and Humanities Nebraska.