An Outcast in Her Own Town

She had to be shocked from the top of her flowered hat to the hem of her velvet dress. This can’t be happening, she must have thought, not after all we have done together, not in this town I helped grow. Elizabeth Hudson Smith must have felt dismay when her world in Wickenburg, Arizona, turned upside down in the 1930s. When prominent men and women she had befriended for more than three decades crossed the street to avoid her. When her beloved Hotel Vernetta—the town’s unofficial community