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Donna Pedace shares highlights from her book Scandalous Women of the Old West – The Women Who Dared to Be Different, with a focus on Susan McSween Barber. McSween Barber and her husband, Alexander McSween, were central figures in the infamous Lincoln County War and were closely tied to the rise of the Billy the Kid legend. In an era when women rarely received recognition, she became what newspapers often referred to as “The Cattle Queen of New Mexico.”
Donna Pedace is the former executive director of the Eugene O’Neill Theater and Museum in Connecticut and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society Museum in Santa Fe. She also served as national director of Oasis, working with founder Marylen Mann to open and operate new Oasis centers during the late 1980s and early 1990s.