This is my great-grandmother, on the left, in North Dakota.
This might be more of the "strong woman" G2G post than the "feminine" one, but it brings up an interesting aspect of the time - because of dresses and ideas of modesty, women rode horses side-saddle, which I can't imagine was very safe, especially at a trot. Yet they rode all around the area, which was barely tamed frontier land, like that. Accounts of the family say they were all good riders, male and female.