Gambler's Wife: The Life of Malinda Jenkins Paperback - 1998
by Malinda Jenkins; As Told by Jesse Lilienthal; Introduction by Paula Mitchell Marks
Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a Kentucky farmer. Spunky and rebellious, she liked men and married three. With her third husband, a professional gambler, Malinda bounced across the West, gaining financial independence from various enterprises. When writer Jesse Lilienthal met Malinda in 1930, she was a widow in her eighties and spent every afternoon at the racetrack. Her lively story is also the story of the American West.
From the rear cover
Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a subsistence farmer in Kentucky. Showing spunk early, she pridefully refused to attend school without the right textbooks and escaped as soon as possible from a large family that had "too much religion" and too little else. With her third husband, Jenkins, the professional gambler, she bounced all over the West, from Wichita Falls to Oregon City to Tacoma to a lumber camp in Washington. She operated a beauty parlor in San Francisco and more boarding houses while Jenkins prospected for gold in Alaska, and in 1897 she crossed the Chilkoot Pass and joined him in Dawson, where they ran the Sour Dough Saloon. Later on they owned a racing stable. When writer Jesse Lilienthal met her in 1930, Malinda was a widow in her eighties who spent every afternoon at the racetrack. Here is her lively story, told to Lilienthal and long out of print until now.
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- Title Gambler's Wife: The Life of Malinda Jenkins
- Author Malinda Jenkins; As Told by Jesse Lilienthal; Introduction by Paula Mitchell Marks
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bison, Lincoln
- Date 1998-04-01
- ISBN 9780803276079 / 0803276079
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.27 x 0.62 in (20.17 x 13.39 x 1.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life - United States, Jenkins, Malinda
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010455
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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