Mother Featherlegs was a prostitute who moved to Wyoming in 1876 and set up shop a few miles south of the town of Lusk. Her cabin was conveniently located on a well-travelled trail, which provided her with customers.
Rumors around town were that she was from Louisiana and had been part of an outlaw gang there. An additional rumor was that her cabin was the gathering place for a new bunch of outlaws.
As we saw last week, Wyoming in the 1870s was home to several thousand more men than women, and it did not take long for several of those men to become well acquainted with Mother Featherlegs. Mean...
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