One of the Old West’s most popular entertainers was Lola Montez. Tickets to her show went for as high as $500. This exotic Spanish beauty was actually Irish. She was born Marie Delores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert in Limerick, Ireland in 1818, but her stage name Lola Montez fitted her perfectly.  She had the dark, sultry beauty and exquisitely molded features of the women of Spain.  She even invented a line of Spanish ancestors and a fraudulent girlhood spent in Seville.  Another whopper she told


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