No. 621
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
March 15, 2022

A Society Escapade.

How some swell dames of Virginia City, Nevada, in male attire, painted the town red.
March 15, 2022
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A Way Out of the Sunday Difficulty. | A Smuggler Queen.

A Society Escapade.

Western-Ladies-Lark

On a recent evening two well-known ladies of Virginia City, Nev., started out for a frolic disguised in fashionable male attire. They were accompanied by male companions, and visited several saloons, calling for drinks at the bar with the nonchalance of habitues. The young men were well known, but the barkeepers were puzzled in trying to guess the identity of their companions.

When they drank at the Sazerac the searching glance of Billy Eckhoft frightened the elder of the two ladies (who, by the way, is married) and with her companion she deserted the other couple and returned home, apprehending discovery. The remaining couple visited numerous saloons on C street and looked in at the faro games, the young lady passing for a good-looking, delicate young man. The participants in the harmless frolic are well known, but their names are suppressed through fear of creating a flutter of surprise in Comstock society.

 

National Police Gazette, June 26, 1886.