When asked in 1879 why she wanted to travel to such an outlandish place as Patagonia, the author replied without hesitation that she was taking to the saddle in order to flee from the strict confines of polite Victorian society. "Palled with civilization and its surroundings, I wanted to escape to some place where I might be as far removed from them as possible. A longing grows up within one to taste a more vigorous emotion than that afforded by the monotonous round of society's so-called pleasures," Dixie wrote. "Riding Across Patagonia" tells the story of how the aristocrat successfully...

Bible, falsely called the Word of God. Abominable falsehood The Bible is the Word of Man, and the God therein is this creature deified. Into the lips of that Deity man has breathed his ignorant thoughts and selfish desires, chief of which was the possession of woman as a slave. How could this be enforced but by making her believe that she was the offspring of a male rib and the first to transgress the commands of God, wherefore the mere chip of the former, and justly subjected by the latter to the condition of a disinherited? Disinherited Woman Through long ages your eyes have been bound,...