Tutored by the notorious Lola Montez, young Lotta Crabtree began her career at age eight, in 1855, dancing for gold miners in Grass Valley, California. She added a banjo and found greater success when she moved to San Francisco and on to New York City’s Broadway. The darling of the mining camps flaunted convention—here seen smoking a cigar!—much as Madonna and Miley Cyrus would do more than a century later.
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Bettie Curboy Ok with Madonna...lost me at Miley...
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Tom Drake She danced on a stump at Pippin's Blacksmith Shop in Rough And Ready Cal. Lola Montez's house still stands in Grass Valley.
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Surviving a Stagecoach Robbery
Stagecoach travelers were far more likely to perish from accidents, bad water or what passed for food at the stage stops than an outlaw’s bullets.
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John Bristow Sr. A great book that includes the Canyon Springs Robbery along with many others, and covers the road agents, Gangs and messengers is "Assault On The Deadwood Stage" By Robert K, DeArment. An excellent read, well researched and informative.
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Dennis Finley The more I read about gunfights and shootouts the LESS I want to be in one! Even if you win, you can still lose...
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Meeting Billy the Kid
Lily Casey was 14 when she met Billy the Kid in New Mexico.
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John Copleston Love that story.
William Boney alias Billy the Kid
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Victor Bell That's not Billy the Kid????
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Tombstone’s Religious Side
During the early days of life in Tombstone the main only diversion was playing cards but that soon changed as the business district developed.
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Marko Fančović they say Tombstone was a town with two newspopapers (The Eputaph and The Nugget), but only one Bible in the whole town
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Mark Watson I think The Sisters of Loretto at the foot of the Cross was there my Gg aunt became a nun of that order around 1878. I often wondered if she was sent west.
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The Town Named For a Hairdo
1890, Walt Rigney ran a saloon on the Mogollon Rim. His hair stuck out like a pine bough, so the soldiers who frequented the saloon called him Ol’ Pinetop.
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Pauline Hoye Cute town. Thanks for the story!
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Sue Chapman Butcher Love the story just a bit of history I didn't know about.
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The most famous member of the James-Younger Gang, the outlaw leader Jesse James was murdered in 1882, and this cabinet card of him was made that year.
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Dennis Salek If Hitler got out of Germany alive at the end of WW2, and Billy the kid wasn't really killed by Pat Garret, and Butch Cassidy died of old age like some believe, then maybe Ol' Jesse died of old age too. Wouldn't be surprised if Wild Bill Hickok lived out his life in Alaska, rather that being shot in the back. And I seen Elvis at our Walmart working as a greeter. LMAO.
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Brad Carter Modern forisic photography proves the fake 1882 death was NOT the real Jesse James
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House Calls Without A Horse or Buggy
That’s one of the legacies of Susan “Doc Suzy” Anderson, one of the first female doctors in the west.
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Sue Chapman Butcher I think she was a one of kind. Greatness doesn't always come with a medal. She didn't let her illness or her mode of transportation stop her either.
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Mary Killewald One of the best pictures of old west women. She was beautiful plus a great humanitarian.
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Rose Groce Worthem Not a bad price at all. Going to get it!
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A good old-fashioned gift! It actually starts now!
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Belle Starr of the Indian Territory was another lady attracted to outlaws. She consorted with some, including Cole Younger, and married others, Jim Reed and Sam Starr. This cabinet card of her on her horse dates to 1886, three years before she was mysteriously murdered.
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