The women who played the frontier theaters---singers, dancers and actresses—had a head start on the road to success simply because they were women; in much of the West that alone was enough to attract a crowd. There were other ways of getting rich off the earnings of the Forty-Niners. One was acting on stage. In those early days of San Francisco when money flowed as if it came out of a tap, Lola Montez
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