Railroad’s First Lady

If any man in 1901 had been asked about women in business, he’d have laughed and said they didn’t have any “business sense.” Besides, women were too busy running the home and raising the children, they shouldn’t dirty their little dainty hands with something as competitive and ambitious as business. No one could say that to Sarah Kidder. Her presidency of California’s Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad is known as its “Twelve Golden Years” because she made the line more profi