Third expanded

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Sadie Orchard

(The Time of Her Life)

The third printing of Sadie Orchard, the Time of Her Life contains more chapters, additional pictures and a new cover. Chapters on the Warm Spring Apaches, the silver devaluation and additional stories of Sadie are included.
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PDX Printing
ISBN: 978-0-615-18853-9

Preface

Sadie settled in Kingston, New Mexico in the early 1880,s during the gold and silver rush in the Black Range Mountains. She had a brothel on Virtue Avenue. Later she moved 9 miles south to Hillsboro where she opened the Ocean Grove Hotel (now the Black Range Museum). She married J. W. Orchard and they ran a stage coach line from Lake Valley, Hillsboro and Kingston. Sadie was the first woman stagecoach driver in New Mexico. She was a strong woman for the period in which she lived: She kept her stagecoach free from Indian raids, helped raise money to build a church in Kingston, cared for families during floods and disease outbreaks, tore up her fine dresses to line the caskets of children during epidemics, lent money to miners who had staked claims, and cared for the needy. She hired a Chinaman, Tom Ying, who cooked in her restaurant. Sadie claimed to be from London, England, but her birth occurred in Iowa. Sadie was quite a gal! The book is in the 3rd edition.