Complete your The Girls Of The Golden West collection. Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the 1890s was well known as a health resort that attracted wealthy visitors from the East and from Europe, but it was also the financial center for the nearby mining district of Cripple Creek, the site of one of the richest gold strikes and the most violent labor struggles in the history of the United States. Discover releases, reviews, track listings, recommendations, and more about The Girls Of The Golden West - The Dying Cowboy On The Prairie / Round Up Time In Texas at Discogs. The Girls of The Golden West mp3-, The Girls of The Golden West - There s a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate, The Girls. 1 Colorado Springs and Goldfield were in some sense defined by older imaginings of the western frontier, but they were in fact intimately tied to developments in global capitalism and were sites of two of the most radical labor movements in the mining West. Both Corinne Seeds and Helen Heffernan grew up in western towns at a time when ideas of the frontier were being challenged by rapid social and technological change. In 1906, when she was ten, she moved with her widowed mother, older brothers, and sister across the continent to the mining town of Goldfield, Nevada, where she attended high school.
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Her father, a brick mason, died when she was a child of six. Helen Heffernan was born in the industrial city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the youngest of the seven living children of Michael and Margaret Heffernan. Girls of The Golden West is Marydee Reynolds and Amalea Tshilds, recreating the music of Marydee's great aunt Millie who along with her sister Dolly performed throughout the midwest as The Girls of The Golden West as part of the WLS barn dance craze that swept the country in the 1930s. Corinne Seeds was born and lived until she was sixteen in Colorado Springs, Colorado her father, Sherman, was a carpenter and her mother, Mary, had been a teacher. Both were born into families in which women were expected to work, and both spent their formative years in the American West. Corinne Seeds and Helen Heffernan were born seven years apart-Seeds in 1889 and Heffernan in 1896. Peter Sellars (librettist, director) and John Adams (composer) of ‘Girls of the Golden West.’ Photo by Jacklyn Meduga.