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Mollie Johnson was a 19th-century madam in Deadwood, South Dakota. [1] [2] Johnson was born in Alabama, [2] [3] and migrated west due to the demand for working prostitutes. Indications are that she began working that trade in her early teens, around the age of 15 or 16 by some reports. [4] However, definite information on her early life is ...
In turn, other ventures began to turn away from the term, advertising themselves not as a luxury resort or a dude ranch, but a working ranch with guest rooms. That trend had become evident in the 1930s but, by the 1950s, the term dude ranch had become unpopular, with most establishments advertising themselves as simply "ranches", and stressing ...
Women in real estate facts and figures. 62% of all Realtors are female ... While the majority of real estate agents today are female, in 1908, when the National Association of Realtors was founded ...
The number of dude ranches in the U.S. has been dwindling over the past decade as the high fixed-costs become more expensive for families to manage and more difficult to pass onto younger generations.
An occupation may become obsolete for a single reason, or for a combination of reasons. Reasons for occupations to become obsolete fall into a number of groups: Cultural/fashion change, for example hoop skirt and crinoline manufacturers were significant employers in the 1850s and 1860s but they declined significantly in later years as fashions ...
[18] [19] The White Grass Dude Ranch was established in 1913, when George Tucker Bispham, a former Bar B C employee, and Harold Hammond consolidated their adjoining working ranches right at the foot of the Tetons. The White Grass inholding operated as a dude ranch until 1985, when its life estate expired, the longest-active dude ranch in the ...
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The growth in female representation in South Dakota is part of a trend nationally, though most legislatures don’t have gender parity. In 2023, women represented at least half of the lawmakers in ...