Badass Women of America

Send us Fan Mail It may seem like a frivolous thing but even today women lawyers are forbidden to enter some courts wearing pants! How much longer are we going to be told who we are and what we should wear? Women have been fighting for the right to dress as they choose for 175 years.  Why are we still battling this issue? Join Kit and Sherlock for stories of women who defied the rules to wear pant...

Send us Fan Mail What is a cowgirl?  Ranch hand, ranch owner, Wild West performer, rodeo competitor, horse trainer, stagecoach driver, outlaw, cattle rustler - so many definitions.  But the ultimate definition is that a cowgirl is determined and fiercely independent. In this episode we cover three different kinds of cowgirls. Jo Monahan - socialite debutant turned bronco buster and cattle rancher....

Send us Fan Mail Join us, Kit and Sherlock, as we share the stories of four women homesteaders in the Wild West. The more we read about the women who came before us the more inspired we become. Be inspired, learn about the Badass Women of America! See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on Instagram.  https://www.instagram.com/badass_women_of_america/

Send us Fan Mail Over 100,000 single women took advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and for the first time claimed land in their own name. These women are not in our history books.  These women were instrumental in developing the West.  These were the badass women who lived in the wilderness so that they could have independence, adventure and claim their part of American history. This episode i...

Send us Fan Mail Stagecoach drivers had the hardest job at the time.  Blizzards, rain, wind, bandits, and predators plagued their routes.  Driving a six-horse team through the night these women were determined to deliver the passengers, mail and supplies even if it meant traversing unforgivable conditions.  Kit and Sherlock talk about two brave women who were the best-of-the-best stagecoach driver...

Send us Fan Mail Not every woman in the 1800s succumbed to the Victorian era of rules and don'ts.  Some went their own way - sometimes with good results and sometimes not so good results. Today's episode introduces you to four women who sometimes had good results with their adventurous nature and sometimes not but they all had one thing in common - they lived their lives the way they wan...

Send us Fan Mail My mother-in-law, Marilyn Reber, was a woman who gently pushed against the  pressures of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s to be the woman she wanted to be rather than the woman that society thought she should be. Like so many adventurous women she slipped through the restraints of restriction and made her own way. See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on I...

Send us Fan Mail 25,000 brave women applied to be test pilots in 1942 for WW2.  1,074 made it into the program.  These women were the best of the best pilots in America!  They flew planes that men refused to fly.   Join Kit and Sherlock as they reveal the path of women of adventure in 1942.  Celebrate the "women who came before us"! See pictures and additional information about Badass Wo...

Send us Fan Mail Pancho Barnes was one of a kind.  A daredevil who partied hardy from the 20s to the 50s and one of the best pilots of her time, if not the best.  The first woman stunt pilot in Hollywood in 1929, the first woman test pilot for Lockheed and other airplane manufacturers and the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club. "When you have a choice - choose happy!" - Pancho Barnes ...

Send us Fan Mail Bessie Coleman was a pioneer of aviation.   The first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921. Bessie earned money as a "barnstorming" stunt flier drawing thousands of people to see her daredevil flying.  She was fearless and forward thinking.  A celebrity of her time. "Well, because I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew...

Send us Fan Mail Join Kit and Sherlock to hear about the original American women of aviation starting in 1907.  Nearly two decades before Amelia Earhart there were dozens of American women who not only flew planes but built them - sometimes in their living room! These were women who never asked permission to make history yet they aren't represented enough in our history books.  Let's rep...

Send us Fan Mail Join us to hear the amazing story of Private Jane Perkins, a soldier in the Danville Artillery during the Civil War.  Hear her heroic story of three years in battle, capture, imprisonment and her last hurray. See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on Instagram.  https://www.instagram.com/badass_women_of_america/

Send us Fan Mail Ad free episode In this episode we introduce two amazing women.  One who saved Lincoln from a first assassination attempt and another who was Lincoln's secret military strategist during the Civil War. See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on Instagram.  https://www.instagram.com/badass_women_of_america/

Send us Fan Mail There are so many amazing women who fought in the Civil War that we decided to briefly touch on five women that we love.  From the brave Maria Lewis to the outrageous Major Annie Jones, we cover five women who run the gamut of the brave, the funny and the audacious. These are the women who came before us. See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on Ins...

Send us Fan Mail Rosetta Wakeman, AKA Pvt. Lyon Wakeman of the Civil War, wrote many letters home.   Historians see her one way, we see her another way - a woman in search of identity during the Victorian age when women weren't given any choices.  Rosetta made her own choices as a Union Civil War soldier. She didn't do anything that historians see as spectacular but she was spectacular i...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the women who built the Confederacy and then crashed it to end the Civil War. See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on Instagram.  https://www.instagram.com/badass_women_of_america/

Send us Fan Mail In this episode discover Sarah Edmonds.  A fearless woman who defied Victorian conventions, put her life on the line numerous times and helped win a war. See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on Instagram.  https://www.instagram.com/badass_women_of_america/