We've named our Colorado Collection of Victorian style mantels after Colorado women of the era:
Mattie Silks was Colorado's most famous madame of the 1870's to 1920 with a franchise of several brothels and a participant in Denver's first duel between 2 women (fighting, of course, over the same man).
Maggie "Molly" Brown moved to Leadville, Colorado at age 18. While working in a department store, she met her future husband who later earned substantial wealth with his engineering designs that helped mine gold. Money provided Maggie the means to fund her education at Carnegie Institute where she learned several languages, integrated into high society and became immersed in social and political issues. Maggie set up soup kitchens for poor miners and worked tirelessly in the women's suffrage movement and to establish advanced educational opportunities for women. Maggie is best known for her heroic efforts as the passenger on the Titanic who helped evacuate the unsinkable ship, and later took control of her half full lifeboat (against captain's orders) to return to the faltering ship to save drowning victims. Posthumously she became known as "Unsinkable Molly Brown".