Kitty Leroy
A gunfighter, gambler, performer, and alleged prostitute, Kitty Leroy, was best known as one of the most proficient poker players in the Old West. Thought to have been from Michigan, she was performing as a dancer by the age of ten and as she got older, began to work in dancehalls and saloons, where she picked up a number of other skills, specifically proficiency with weapons and at games of chance. When she married her first husband, legend has it that he was the only man in town with the nerve to let her shoot apples off his head. But, Kitty was restless and wanting to take her "show" on the road, she headed to Texas, leaving her husband behind.
By the age of 20, she was said to have been one of the most popular entertainers in Dallas, but soon gave up dancing to become a faro dealer and was noted for never going to the faro tables without several knives and revolvers. Her skills with weapons and gambling proficiency became legendary as well as her mode of dress which ranged from dressing like a man to extravagant gypsy-like attire. While in Texas, she acquired a second husband and the two soon headed to California.
A third marriage apparently took place somewhere along the line, a man that she was said to have married as a result of a guilty conscience. In this incident, the story tells us that when the man became too ardent in his affections for her, she challenged him to a fight. When he refused to fight a woman, she donned men's clothing and challenged him again. She then allegedly shot him and as he lay wounded, called for a preacher and married him before he died.
When the Black Hills gold rush began in South Dakota, Kitty made her way to the thriving boomtown of Deadwood. She soon opened the Mint Gambling Saloon, where she met her fourth husband, German prospector who made a rich gold strike. However, when the German's gold ran out, so did Kitty's interest She was then said to have hit him over the head with a bottle, before kicking him out of their home and her life.
On June 11, 1877, Kitty married her fifth husband, a man named Samuel R. Curley in Deadwood. But, for Kitty, this would be a fatal mistake. Curley was a jealous man and after numerous arguments over alleged affairs with a former husband, and other such as Wild Bill Hickok and Sam Bass, he killed her on December 7, 1877 in the Lone Star Saloon before turning the gun on himself. A journalist would later say of the 28 year-old, that she "had five husbands, seven revolvers, a dozen Bowie knives, and always went armed to the teeth."
The Gold Rush
A gunfighter, gambler, performer, and alleged prostitute, Kitty Leroy, was best known as one of the most proficient poker players in the Old West. Thought to have been from Michigan, she was performing as a dancer by the age of ten and as she got older, began to work in dancehalls and saloons, where she picked up a number of other skills, specifically proficiency with weapons and at games of chance. When she married her first husband, legend has it that he was the only man in town with the nerve to let her shoot apples off his head. But, Kitty was restless and wanting to take her "show" on the road, she headed to Texas, leaving her husband behind.
By the age of 20, she was said to have been one of the most popular entertainers in Dallas, but soon gave up dancing to become a faro dealer and was noted for never going to the faro tables without several knives and revolvers. Her skills with weapons and gambling proficiency became legendary as well as her mode of dress which ranged from dressing like a man to extravagant gypsy-like attire. While in Texas, she acquired a second husband and the two soon headed to California.
A third marriage apparently took place somewhere along the line, a man that she was said to have married as a result of a guilty conscience. In this incident, the story tells us that when the man became too ardent in his affections for her, she challenged him to a fight. When he refused to fight a woman, she donned men's clothing and challenged him again. She then allegedly shot him and as he lay wounded, called for a preacher and married him before he died.
When the Black Hills gold rush began in South Dakota, Kitty made her way to the thriving boomtown of Deadwood. She soon opened the Mint Gambling Saloon, where she met her fourth husband, German prospector who made a rich gold strike. However, when the German's gold ran out, so did Kitty's interest She was then said to have hit him over the head with a bottle, before kicking him out of their home and her life.
On June 11, 1877, Kitty married her fifth husband, a man named Samuel R. Curley in Deadwood. But, for Kitty, this would be a fatal mistake. Curley was a jealous man and after numerous arguments over alleged affairs with a former husband, and other such as Wild Bill Hickok and Sam Bass, he killed her on December 7, 1877 in the Lone Star Saloon before turning the gun on himself. A journalist would later say of the 28 year-old, that she "had five husbands, seven revolvers, a dozen Bowie knives, and always went armed to the teeth."
The Gold Rush
2 oz bourbon
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz honey syrup
Drinkability - 4
Drunkability - 3.5/4
Taxic Diversity - 3
Accessibiliy - 4
Priority of Conservation - 5
Comments: "tastes like honey and lemon, but smells like bourbon"
From Women of the Wild West, hosted by MPF
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