Sharlot as a Woman

In an age when woman were often considered inferior to men, she loved a good fight, and broke gender barriers. Sharlot was a free soul and her writing expresses this sense of freedom.

But I do enjoy everything - just the sunshine on the sand is beautiful enough to keep one giving thanks for eyes to see with. And all day long I'm glad, so glad, so glad that God let me be an out-door woman and love the big things. I couldn't be a tame house cat woman and spend big sunny, glorious days giving card parties and planning dresses -- though I love pretty clothes and good dinners and friends - and would love a home where only the true, kind, worth-while things had place.

I'm not unwomanly - don't you dare to think so - but God meant woman to joy in his great, clean, beautiful world - and I thank Him that He lets me see some of it not through a window pane.

Your telegram came yesterday - on from Phoenix. Every one of my happiest thoughts, all the days through, ends in a prayer for you - and gratitude beyond words that I have you to call friend - dear, dear, dear Great Comrade.
Goodnight, Amigo, God keep you everywhere.
(signed) S. M. H.

—Sharlot Hall to Matt Riordan, September 1910

WHO WAS SHARLOT M. HALL? | SAVING THE PAST | A HOME FOR HER COLLECTION | SHARLOT AS A POLITICIAN | SHARLOT AS AN ACTIVIST | SHARLOT AS A HISTORIAN | SHARLOT AS A WRITER AND POET |  MOVING WEST | RANCH WOMAN | ARIZONA BY SHARLOT HALL | THE GENISIS OF THE EARTH AND THE MOON