When Sarah Clark Kidder found herself the owner of the majority of stock in the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad at her husband's death in 1901, nobody would have expected her to take control of the business. After all, women were dismissed as having no “business sense” in those days, and Sarah had shown herself for the thirty years of her marriage as a happy and successful homemaker in Grass Valley, California. Her beautiful scroll-saw mansion was a favorite for teas and female gathering
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