{"id":24521,"date":"2017-08-26T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T23:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24521"},"modified":"2017-08-26T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T23:26:19","slug":"female-stagewhip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/female-stagewhip\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley, Toughest Female Stagewhip in the West!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/charlepa.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/charley-parkhurst.html\">Charley Parkhurst<\/a> always dressed like other stagewhips&#8211;bulky clothes, coat and hat&#8211;and most didn&#8217;t know that Charley was a woman until her death in 1879. The coroner made the discovery and determined further that she had been a mother. Also, locked in a trunk beneath her bed was a baby&#8217;s red dress.<\/p>\n<p>Author Craig MacDonald has uncovered many interesting, true stories about (and relating to) women in the Wild West. Here are a few tidbits from his book, &#8220;Old West Wow!&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mule for a Wife &#8212; A prospector near Rich Bar overheard a miner quarreling with his wife. The angry argument became so loud the prospector went up to the Forty-niner and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll give you my mule for your wife.&#8221; The husband agreed and so did the wife and everyone left happy.<\/li>\n<li>Looks Can Be Deceiving &#8212; \u00a0A San Francisco photographer made a fortune peddling a picture of Mary McCloskey, a girl miner. The image circulated for 150 years, making its way into miners&#8217; hands, books and museums. The photo was proven to be teenager John Burt Colton.<\/li>\n<li>Shocking Advice About Kissing &#8212; In 1857, the Weekly Columbian shocked some of its Mother Lode readers with this Kissing Tip: &#8220;Don&#8217;t bungle the matter by 5 minutes of torture, like a cat playing with a mouse, kiss deliberately, enjoy its full flavor like champagne from the flask!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charley Parkhurst always dressed like other stagewhips&#8211;bulky clothes, coat and hat&#8211;and most didn&#8217;t know that Charley was a woman until her death in 1879. The coroner made the discovery and determined further that she had been a mother. Also, locked in a trunk beneath her bed was a baby&#8217;s red dress. Author Craig MacDonald has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}