Wild West Wife

Within a month Heck and I had a fake ceremony in a doxology works that gave everyone the impression that we were married, I had my surname legally changed to Thomas, and I had Samantha's and Virgil's surnames changed to Sterling. Heck and I moved in together and had an extremely rewarding sex life, and he was a good step father to the kids so that they were raised right.

The only melancholy thing about my life with Heck was that we never were legally married -- that is until in March, 1912 we got word that Ben was killed in a shootout. Heck and I got legally married a week later in an adjacent town where we were not well known. Unfortunately we were only married for a few months before Heck died in August of Bright's disease. He never lost a gunfight, but he had no chance in his fight against the disease.

I got to live to see not only grandchildren but great grandchildren before I knew that it was time to go.

[Aside from amyyum; GGG's last entry was "I lived a wonderful Western life and never regretted boarding that train soon after my eighteenth birthday."]

Dictionary:

Arbuckle's = coffee

Back staircase = bustle (derisively)

Bejabbers= holy shit

Bunko artist = con man

Calico queen = prostitute

Catalog woman = mail order bride

Cattle Kate = female rustler

Corn juice = whiskey

Doxology works = church

Granger = farmer

Grass widow = divorcee

Hoyden = tomboy

Pack iron = carry a hand gun

Painted cat = prostitute,

Petticoat pensioner = pimp

Pied = paint horse

Pirooting = fucking

Quirt = whip

Sard = fuck

Scrub = horse of little value

Shake = prostitute