ADMISSION COST: FREE

ADMISSION COST: FREE

Learn about the history & legends of our pioneering western women

Meet Sacagawea

May 1788 – December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884

Sacagawea (also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter travel in 1804-1806. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.

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Legendary Women of the West

  • Annie Oakley

    “Little Sure Shot”

  • Mary Carter

    First woman in the territory to have her own cattle brand

  • Ruth Roach

    “The world’s most beautiful cowgirl”

  • Dell Burke

    “Lusty lady of Lusk”

[The men] “made you mad…..[But] they wasn’t bossing me. I was on my own. They must have thought I was a tough old sassy thing, but I didn’t care what they thought. I had to fight my own battles I didn’t ask them for help.”

-South Dakota Woman Homesteader

Make sure to stop by the store next door too!

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  • Cowgirls of the West Museum & Emporium is a 501(c)3 Wyoming non-profit organization that was born in 1995 when 5 gals who grew up in Cheyenne were having lunch. They knew their dads and granddads were all memorialized down at the Old West Museum for settling many of Wyoming’s ranches but there was no one telling the story about their moms and grandmothers AND all of the early year cowgirls who rode the rodeo circuit in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Out of this void they created The Cowgirls of the West. With the help of a young attorney they became a non profit and in 2001 their dream became a reality …The Cowgirls of the West Museum found a home on 17th Street . The museum has grown and flourished in the last 21 years….and that young attorney…he has too…he served as the governor of Wyoming for 8 years….the Honorable Matt Mead.

  • 203 & 205 West 17th St

    Cheyenne, WY 82001

  • The Cowgirls Museum & Emporium are closed for the winter & early spring seasons; we’ll be back open in early May.

  • The Cowgirls Museum & Emporium are closed for the winter & early spring seasons; we’ll be back open in early May.

  • FREE! That’s right, it will always be free to visit the Cowgirls of the West Museum!

“We shall someday be heeded and when we shall have our amendment to the consitutuion of the United States everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people today think that all the privileges, all of the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea how every single inch of ground she stands on has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women in the past.”

- Susan B. Anthony 1894