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    The English Music Hall Gal & Her Colorado Silver Miner
    The English Music Hall Gal & Her Colorado Silver Miner
    The English Music Hall Gal & Her Colorado Silver Miner
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    The English Music Hall Gal & Her Colorado Silver Miner

    By Joyce Melbourne

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    An English woman used to make her living by performing at music halls in Kansas city, and by taking on a sponsor or too. That is, until she decided to clean up her act and become a mail order bride to a Colorado silver miner. Once there, she vowed to win the love of his little son, and through that, the love of the miner himself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Hart
    Release dateJul 11, 2015
    ISBN9781311136640
    The English Music Hall Gal & Her Colorado Silver Miner
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    Joyce Melbourne

    Joyce Melbourne lives in Southern California with her husband, numerous animals, and an unkempt garden, which she loves. She's been interested in romance and all of its sub genres for many years.

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      The English Music Hall Gal & Her Colorado Silver Miner - Joyce Melbourne

      The English Music Hall Gal & Her Colorado Silver Miner

      By

      Joyce Melbourne

      Copyright 2015 Enduring Hope & Love Press

      Synopsis: An English woman used to make her living by performing at music halls in Kansas city, and by taking on a sponsor or too. That is, until she decided to clean up her act and become a mail order bride to a Colorado silver miner. Once there, she vowed to win the love of his little son, and through that, the love of the miner himself.

      Victoria Wood made her arrival at the little town of Tinsville in Colorado by way of the Denver and Rio Grande railway as it snaked up the hills. She admitted it was a scenic ride, but a scary one. The railroad had been the cause of gun battles between different interests trying to secure the right of way passage over different stretches of land. When it had opened three years earlier in 1878, the tracks were frequently interrupted by bullets ripping apart the hired guns different politicians employed to get their way.

      As the train slowly crawled up one incline, the conductor called her attention to a flat rock on the side ridge as a having been the scene for the Brute Peak Massacre, which he was sure she must know about. Victoria was from England and had only been in the United States two years, so shoot-outs between gunslingers were a new part of her understanding.

      Cyril Green had ran an ad in the matrimonial section of the Kansas City Post looking for a woman who could be a good cook to him and mother to his five-year-old son. To interest a woman to relocate to his small mining community, he’d mentioned in the advertisement his mine and how it had produced some of the finest silver west of the Mississippi.

      The free silver movement was all the rage among the farmers of the Midwest and prairie which made his claim a profitable one indeed. Mining towns were springing up all along the Colorado mineral hills. But, few of the rugged individuals who sought to make their fortune by digging in the earth were women.

      Victoria had been stranded in Kansas City trying to survive on whatever money she could earn as a singer in the beer halls. She had a promising career in music halls back in England, but a rich patron promised to take her to American with him where she could earn some real money and live in the style of a princess. She had gone to America, and why not? Victoria was only twenty-two and the youngest daughter of six children.

      Her father had owned a tavern in Battersea and she saw no future in waiting tables. She used her youth and talent to build a singing career on the music hall circuit, but wanted more than they would allow her to earn.

      She had signed the ship’s log out of Britain as Mrs. Victoria Wood, although she’d never had the benefit of clergy with her sponsor, Mr. Sanford Wood, who owned textile mills all over the country. She felt he was a small expense for her career to be launched in the new world. She was even willing to spend the trip dressed in a black veil.

      Her supposed husband told everyone his wife was from India and didn’t feel comfortable around the English. The joke was on the real Mrs. Wood who was away in Greece on the grand tour of Europe.

      Cyril had lost his wife to the fever when it raged

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