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Queens of the Mines

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Queens of the Mines is a women’s history podcast.
Season 3 features inspiring, gallant, even audacious stories of REAL 19th Century women from the Wild West.
Season 2 features women from California history while Season 1 Tells stories of women from California’s Gold Rush. Until recently, historians and the public have dismissed ”conflict history,” and focused more on the history that opposing beliefs could manage to agree on for some mutually beneficial end.
Important elements that are absolutley necessary for understanding American history have sometimes been downplayed or virtually forgotten. If we do not incorporate racial and ethnic conflict in the presentation of the American experience, we will never understand how far we have come and how far we have to go. No matter how painful, we can only move forward by accepting the truth. Support the podcast by tipping via Venmo to @queensofthemines, buying the book on Amazon, or becoming a patron at www.partreon.com/queensofthemines

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Isadora Duncan - The Mother of Modern Dance Apr 01, 2022

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Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com In this episode, we dive into the life of Isadora Duncan. In How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the film from 2003, Kate Hudson’s character Andy dons a yellow diamond necklace in one scene that they call the “Isadora Diamond”. That $6 million 80-carat yellow diamond in the necklace was designed by Harry Winston and is named after Isadora Duncan. whose philosophy earned her the title of “the creator of modern dance”. Angela Isadora Duncan, was born in San Francisco on May 26, 1877. The youngest of the four children of banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, Joseph Charles Duncan and Mary Isadora Gray. Soon after her birth, Joseph was caught embezzling from the two banks that he was hired to set up. He used the money to fund his private stock speculations. Joseph was lucky to avoid prison time. Her mother Mary left Joseph and moved the children to Oakland to find work as a seamstress and piano teacher. The family lived in extremely poor conditions in Oakland and Angela Isadora attended school until she was ten years old. School was too constricting for her and she decided to drop out. To make money for the family, Angela Isadora joined her three older siblings and began teaching dance to local children. She was not a classically trained dancer or ballerina. Her unique, novel approach to dance showed joy, sadness and fantasy, rediscovering the beautiful, rhythmical motions of the human body. Joseph remarried and started a new family, they all perished aboard the British passenger steamer SS Mohegan, which ran aground off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula of Cornwall England on the 14th of October in 1898. Only 91 out of 197 on board survived. Eventually, Angela Isadora went east to audition for the theater. In Chicago, she auditioned for Augustin Daly, who was one of the most influential men in American theater during his lifetime. She secured a spot in his company, which took her to New York City. In New York, she took classes with American Ballet dancer Marie Bonfanti. The style clashed with her unique vision of dance. Her earliest public appearances back east met with little success. Angela Isadora was not interested in ballet, or the popular pantomimes of the time; she soon became cynical of the dance scene. She was 21 years old, unhappy and unappreciated in New York, Angela Isadora boarded a cattle boat for London in 1898. She sought recognition in a new environment with less of a hierarchy. When she arrived, ballet was at one of its lowest ebbs and tightrope walkers and contortionists were dominating their shared music hall stages. Duncan found inspiration in Greek art, statues and architecture. She favored dancing barefoot with her hair loose and wore flowing toga wrapped scarves while dancing, allowing her freedom of movement. The attire was in contrast to the corsets, short tutus and stiff pointe shoes her audience was used to. Under the name Isadora Duncan, she gave recitals in the homes of the elite. The pay from these productions helped Isadora rent a dance studio, where she choreographed a larger stage performance that she would soon take to delight the people of France. Duncan met Desti in Paris and they became best friends. Desti would accompany Isadora as she found inspiration from the Louvre and the 1900 Paris Exposition where Loie Fuller, an American actress and dancer was the star attraction. Fuller was the first to use theatrical lighting technique with dance, manipulating gigantic veils of silk into fluid patterns enhanced by changing coloured lights. In 1902, Duncan teamed up with Fuller to tour Europe. On tour, Duncan became famous for her distinctive style. She danced to Gluck, Wagner and Bach and even Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Female audiences adored her despite the mixed reaction from the critics. She inspired the phenomenon of young women dancing --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

Daisy Dell Simpson - Lady Hooch Hunter Dec 08, 2021

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Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com Were you in the Herring Creek Area between December 3-6 of 2021? The Sheriff’s Office is seeking information from anyone who was. Please call 209-694-2910 if so. After seeing the positive impact the RAD Card program has had on local business and consumers, The Sonora Area Foundation has thrown another 100,000 into the pot. So if you missed your chance for a Rad card, hurry up and fill yours up now! An individual is only allowed a max of $100 to be doubled, but the app will continue to allow you to add unmatched funds on it, so you can use contact free payments at local businesses if you please. Originally, $500,000 of federal American Rescue Act funds was used for the program; those funds ran out in one week. The new funds will be available soon, so download the app and keep your ears open! Ok, moving on! The Temperance movement began when, across the country, different groups began arguing that alcohol was morally corrupting and hurting families economically. Claiming men would drink their family‘s money away. This temperance movement paved the way for some women to join the Prohibition movement, which they often felt was necessary due to their personal experiences dealing with drunk husbands and fathers, and because it was one of the few ways for women to enter politics in the era. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

Lola Montez - Part 2 of 2 Nov 06, 2021

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Lola Montez Part 1 of 2 Nov 06, 2021

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Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

MMIWG Mini Episode - Jade Wagon - Missing in Wyoming Sep 22, 2021

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We are in a time where historians and the public are no longer dismissing the “conflict history” that has been minimized or blotted out. We now have the opportunity to incorporate the racial and patriarchal experience in the presentation of American reality. That is why today we are going to talk about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The preceding episode may feature foul language and or adult content including violence which may be disturbing some listeners, or secondhand listeners. So, discretion is advised. Today, we are not talking about California History. This is an ad free episode. We are back to our regularly scheduled episodes next week. Have you heard of #MMIWG? The meaning behind the hashtag is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 95 percent of these cases were never covered by national or international media. It’s a hidden epidemic. I bring this up in light of the case of Gabby P, and the national coverage the case is getting in comparison to media coverage on the missing Indigenous women in the nation. 18% of Indigenous female homicide victims had newspaper media coverage, as compared to 51% of White homicide victims and the newspaper articles for Indigenous homicide victims were more likely to contain violent language, portray the victim in a negative light, and provide less information as compared to articles about White homicide victims. This is not different for other communities of color. Education lawyer Johnathan S. Perkins tweeted, “Name one Black woman who went missing and garnered national media attention. I’ll wait.” Indigenous people account for less than 3% of the population in Wyoming. The largest number of Indigenous people were Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho and living on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Fremont County. There were 34 Indigenous female homicide victims between 2000 and 2020. In the latter of the 10 years, the homicide rate was 6.4 times higher than the homicide rate for White females. Despite their small percentage of the population, Indigenous people experience violence, homicide, sexual assault, and are reported missing at disproportionate rates relative to any other race/ethnicity in Wyoming. I would like to take the time to acknowledge one of this year‘s most recently vanished Indigenous Women, and she also went missing in Wyoming, just like Gabby. It’s not that there shouldn’t be concern and outrage surrounding Petito’s disappearance, but despite the fact that 40 percent of Americans reported missing are people of color, this national outcry is rarely replicated for anyone other than a white person. Jade Keilee Wagon born Feb 3, 1996 was a Northern Arapaho tribal woman, Her Northern Arapaho Indian name was Cedar Tree Stands Alone. She stood 5‘4‘‘ tall and weighed roughly 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She had a one of a kind sense of humor and you could spot her cute silly laugh in the largest crowd. Jade was a dedicated mother of two children, MaeLeah and Raphael, and was close with her family. Wagon graduated from St. Stephens Indian School in 2014 and was preparing to attend the Wind River Job Corps to learn a trade and someday have a career in the medical field. From the time she was 19 she had the privilege of being a stay at home mother. Before she was 23, she visited the following states; Utah, Montana, Colorado, South Dakota, New Mexico as well as Florida. She loved to spend time in the mountains. Being outdoors and enjoying nature gave her the feeling of empowerment of being free. Jade was devoted to her Native Ways attending sweats, fasting, and looking for guidance. She had a strong faith that no one could take from her. She was baptized into the Catholic faith and was a devoted member of both St. Stephen’s Catholic Church and St. Margaret’s Catholic Church. She worked at the Wind River Casino for a short time. 30 minutes away from the Wind River Casino was the Shoshone Rose Casino. On January 2nd 2 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

Sue Ko Lee & Sarah‘s Soapbox on Feminism Sep 07, 2021

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It was Labor Day last Monday, and I wanted to take this week to honor a labor union organizer who was a woman named Sue. I found most of my information from the US National Park Service but you can find a more extensive list of references in the show notes for this episode. Make sure to follow the Queens of the Mines instagram and facebook pages this week for images from the story! If you enjoy the podcast, please make sure to rate, subscribe and check out what Queensofthemines.com has to offer, including the new book Queens of the Mines,in paperback and on Kindle. Sue Ko Lee Ok, so let’s talk about Sue Ko Lee, just you and me. Next week, I will have a guest but today it is just us. Sue Ko Lee was born in Honolulu, Hawaii March 9, 1920. She grew up in Watsonville, California, for our out of state listeners, that is in Santa Cruz County, just south of the Santa Cruz that you may know. Sue was the oldest of ten children. - already in a leadership role. She met Lee Jew Hing, who was an immigrant from China. He was a bookkeeper for National Dollar Stores. Most Chinese workers in San Francisco worked for Chinese employers like Joe Shoong, the owner of National Dollar Stores. They married when Sue was 18. She soon took a job at the same factory, along with several of her family members as Chinese American garment workers. Chinese American garment workers were working in poor conditions and making low wages. They had limited options because most white-owned businesses refused to hire them. Also, the Chinese immigrant community was so close-knit, many workers were connected to their bosses through family and friendship ties. Such personal relationships sometimes made workers reluctant to speak out against poor treatment. Many unions had supported the Page Act and the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Page Act of 1875 was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively prohibited the entry of Chinese women, marking the end of open borders. Seven years later, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration by Chinese men as well. So Chinese workers like Lee and her family had a complicated relationship with the labor movement. Until the 1900s, Chinese and Chinese American workers were locked out of unionized factories by racist hiring practices. They reasonably feared that if all the factories were unionized, their jobs would be taken by white workers. Unions like the International Ladies‘ Garment Workers‘ Union were working hard to organize Black, Latino, and Asian American workers in the 1930’s. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was one of the largest labor unions in the United States in the 1900s, representing hundreds of thousands of mostly female clothing industry workers. In the 1930s, the garment industry was the largest employer in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Chinese-owned factories undercut white-owned union shops by charging lower prices for work, paying lower wages and assigning their workers longer hours. Here the workers continued to toil under sweatshop conditions, earning wages ranging from $4 to $16 a week. Sue Ko Lee, a button hole machine operator, worked in the National Dollar Store factory for 25¢ an hour. These practices allowed them to stay in business in the face of the hardship of the Great Depression—but came at a high cost to their workers. This concerned the International Ladies‘ Garment Workers‘ Union. The International Ladies‘ Garment Workers‘ Union organizers struggled to make any headway among Chinese workers until Jennie Matyas, an immigrant from Hungary arrived as the new organizer. Matyas built personal relationships with the workers and their Chinese community and earned their trust. Sue Ko Lee and her coworkers voted to join the International Ladies‘ Garment Workers‘ Union, using ballots written in both English and Chinese. They became the Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Local 341. In 1938, she participated in a strike against th --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

The Book - Queens of The Mines Aug 31, 2021

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xWhat would it have been like for women in California in the 1850’s? What hardships did they face and what victories were they able to realize? Who were the first women to come to California and who was already here? The new book, Queens of the Mines, features stories of ten brilliant people who made their own way, in a time where women were not so welcome to do so. They are rarely heard of, and I want you to know their names. Queens of The Mines the Paperback Book is Now Available on Amazon and in ebook form on the Kindle Store. Find it all at queensofthemines.com. With the lessons you learn, you may as well strike gold. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

Emma Nevada - The Comstock Nightingale Jun 14, 2021

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Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. Today, we learn the story of Emma Nevada, The Comstock Nightingale. QOTM is looking for sponsors, and advertisers. New and old episodes are being downloaded everyday. If you are interested in supporting the continuation of QOTM, reach out to us via the link on queensofthemines.com Thank You to our Sponsors -Sonora Florist -Columbia Mercantile 1855 -The Law Office of Charles B Smith -River Ranch Music Festival #21 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

"Here Lies" - Sonora Masonic Cemetery Audio Tour Sep 05, 2020

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The Youreka Podcast Network launches in October! A single audio feed to amplify the unheard voices of the Motherlode. Today, you will hear a sneak peek from one of the New Shows on the Network. If you want to help with the production of the network, you can donate to the Youreka Podcast Network at queensofthemines.com. “We are gathered here today for, Here Lies, an Audio Tour podcast that guides you through fascinating lives of some of the residents of the historic gold rush cemeteries in California. Known, but rarely heard, and I want you to know their stories.” Today we’re talking about the Sonora Masonic Cemetery in Downtown Sonora CA, I’m Andrea Anderson the hostess of QOTM.” For who could put a price on a memory? This is, Here Lies. The Sonora Masonic Cemetery is located at the cross road of Otis and Cemetery, at 185 Cemetery Lane Sonora, California in Tuolumne County. Disclaimer :This audio tour is off trail, climbing aa dirt hill. RESOURCES USED: Find a grave, Ancestry.com, and History Hunters Youtube Channel which I highly recommend if you are an out of town listener www.queensofthemines.com/donate --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

Eleanor Dumont Part 2 of 2 Jul 30, 2020

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The baby fuzz on her lip had now developed into a growth of unusual proportions for a woman. A disgruntled miner who’d lost his temper in Bannack and a bundle at her table gave her the name “Madame Moustache”. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/message

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