“Spose Ma will think I am crazy but this is a circus anyone need not be ashamed of. “All nice girls, no swearing or anything rough, we are not allowed to monkey with the boys at all. It could not be stricter.” Bettie Herberg wrote this to her sister Esther on April 29, 1911, in the same month she began working for the 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show and two days after she had written: “I do not think I will stay as it is too hard for the money there is in it, but will have to sti


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