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Intrepid Cork pioneer honoured by Cowgirl Hall of Fame

By Noreen Bowden | July 30, 2007

Cork native and intrepid Gold Rush pioneer Nellie Cashman will be inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Texas in November. Nellie Cashman was born in 1845 in Cork, and died in 1925 in British Columbia. Her life of adventure took her throughout the American and Canadian West, where she operated boarding houses and restaurants.

Cashman was also a humanitarian, who began hospitals and would give free meals to miners in need of aid. In one particularly dramatic episode, she funded and led a 77-day rescue operation through severe winter conditions to save dozens of miners in the Cassair Mountains in British Columbia. 

Visit the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame web site.

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