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Women of the Mountain State

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Who was West Virginia's first first lady?
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Buckhannon teenager Sirene Bunten kept a diary during this war.
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This author was the daughter of an unsuccessful presidential candidate.
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This Bluefield native wrote the novels Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth and was the Mountain Party candidate for governor in 2000.
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She made a harrowing scape from Shawnee captivity and followed the Ohio and Kanawha rivers through the treacherous New River Gorge home to safety.
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She is the third woman from West Virginia to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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This Charleston native failed in her attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975.
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Fayette County native Eleanor Parker was known for performing this style of music.
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This Buckhannon native won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Night Watch, set in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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This Clarksburg native's children's book An Edge of the Forest won the Aurianne Award of the American Library Association.
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