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The all-woman town council of Kanab, Utah, wasn’t just a quirky footnote in frontier history—they were a civic force with apron strings and iron wills. In this second half of their story, the ordinances keep coming, but marshals keep quitting. So the women place a help-wanted ad for a man with “spine, humor, and no fear of mothers.”

But not every tale from their tenure is quite so grounded…

We investigate the myth of the “Rollaway Saloon”—a bar-on-logs said to have dodged prohibition by rolling across the Utah-Arizona border. You’ll hear the outrageous cowboy version told by Rowland W. Rider… and the butter-churning, baby-raising truth recorded by the locals who actually lived it.

Also in this episode:

— A showdown over 12 gallons of “medicinal” liquor 🥃 

— A marshal who answers to “Marsha” 🤠 

— A fruit festival🍇🍑welcome party for the first automobile to reach the North Rim

— A young Edwin Dilworth Chamberlain explaining why Kanab watermelons grow so big🍉🤭

— And a poetic farewell to the women who governed with grit, prayer, and a rocking chair in every meeting. This is the finale of Kanab’s Petticoat Government. And you’ll never see a “women’s meeting” the same way again.

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