Duty and Honor: Because of a Woman (Book #10)

By Rosie Bosse

Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory

April 1,1880

 "I guess these last six months of trying to reform went out the window. I'll just go back to my old ways. It's easier on my heart even if it's harder on my body."

Miguel Montero, the "bad boy" of the Montero family, had lived fast and loose for many years. He was comfor

• Language: English
• Publisher: Post Rock Publishing
• Release date: Mar 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9781958227329

Rosie Bosse

Rosie Bosse lives and writes on a ranch in Northeast Kansaswith her best friend and husband of many years. Her booksintertwine history with fiction as she creates stories of theOld West. May you meet some new "friends" and revisit old ones in this tenth novel in her Home on the Range series.

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Duty and Honor

Because of a Woman

Book 10

Home on the Range Series

Rosie Bosse

Cover illustrated by Cynthia Martin

Duty and Honor

Copyright © 2024 by Rosie Bosse

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This book is dedicated to the memory of Paul Pumphrey. Enjoy reading the rest of my books in Heaven, Pauly.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Because of a Woman

A Talk With His Sister

Flory's Surprise

To Cheat a Cheater

Harsh Punishment

You Cowboys Are Trouble

Miguel's Proposal

A Visit from the Sheriff

A Quick Wedding

Frank and Jesse James

A Gentleman

A New Friend

Flory's Confession

Victoria, Kansas

A Good Trade

Home to Cheyenne

Flory's Welcome

Sisters and Brothers

Settling In

Strangers on the Road

Trouble!

The First Birth on the Diamond H

An Angry Husband

A Young Hero

News Good and Bad

A Sister's Love

A Husband's Fury

Miguel

A Long Night

A Long Ride and a Little Advice

A Friendly Bartender

A Ride to the River

Open Range

No Longer Enemies

Time to Move

A Town Beneath the Streets

Granny Fay

Old Friends

A Reckless Man

No Friendly Game

A Bad Accident

A Sad Pard

Sad News

Helpful Neighbors

Miguel's Family

Frieder's Story

Two Lost Hearts

The Bet

A Twelve-Beer Shirt

Miguel Was My Friend

For Love of a Sister

So Many Friends!

The Great Cat Drive

Chasing Camels!

A Fine Meal

A Long Wait

Merina's Plan

A Funny Thing About Love

A Worried Man

A Sassy Redhead

A Roundabout Man

A New Beginning

Levi's New Receptionist

A Cantankerous Old Man

New Owners on the Z Bar

Happy Endings

Getting the Word Out

A Reckless Outlaw

A Visit With the Neighbors

An Unnecessary Shooting

A Sad Day

Another Little Momma

Letting Go

The Gift

A Change of Plans

Risky Behavior

A Lost Outlaw

A Frightened Sweetheart

The New Trail Boss

Tall Eagle's Wisdom

The Ponderings of Young Men

Maybe We Should Work Our Way Home

A Cowboy's Bandana

Rusty's Creation

A Big Brother's Problem

A New Grandpa

A Sad Old Man

Rose's Children

One Big, Happy Family

Do You Laugh When You Sleep?

Do you laugh when you sleep? he once asked of me,

That weathered old man as he struggled to breathe.

Alone much his life, a hard one he lived,

His pleasures were few yet he still had a grin.

We became friends some years ago,

When I stopped in to talk as he played dominos.

He didn’t share thoughts until close to the end,

And then he asked me if I was his friend.

He didn’t know faith like how I was raised,

But God came to stay on his final day.

He wasn’t alone for Jesus was there,

To hold both his hands and show him He cared.

I wonder sometimes, now that your life is complete,

Tell me, my friend, do you laugh when you sleep?

Rosie Bosse

Prologue

Duty and Honor, Because of a Woman, is the tenth novel in my Home on the Range series. It is set in 1880, and the story travels from Cheyenne in the Wyoming Territory, across Kansas, and back to Cheyenne.

While most of my characters are fictional, in this novel, you will be introduced to a special woman by the name of Betty Fairchild. I want to thank this pistol-packing horsewoman for allowing me to use her full name and exaggerate her story. Aunt Betty, as she is known to her friends, will turn 100 this year. Aunt Betty, may you enjoy being part of this story!

Kansas City—Two Cities, Divided By a River

Kansas City, Missouri, began as a trading post for the many traders who frequented or lived in the area. The first trading post was established in 1821 by Francois Chouteau, the son of a French family from St. Louis.

The Kansas side of the city formed in 1838. It was first called City of Kansas but that was soon shortened to Kansas City. A trail connecting the river landing in the town of Westport to the Santa Fe Trail was established first. Within several years, commercial buildings and businesses began to appear along the river bluffs.

The years leading up to the Civil War were bloody ones for Kansas City since the Missouri River separated the slave state of Missouri from the free state of Kansas. After the Civil War ended in 1865, the city’s population blossomed. Railways were built and the first bridge across the Missouri River was completed.

The wealthy built their mansions on Quality Hill on the Missouri side while the West Bottoms on the Kansas side became the center of the booming cattle industry. Stockyards, warehouses, and packing houses filled the area.

Kansas City on both sides of the river was a mecca of activity.

The Pacific House Hotel

The Pacific House Hotel was built in 1861 at 401 Delaware Street in Kansas City, Missouri. It was rebuilt in 1869 following a devastating fire the year before and was updated several times after that. It was considered the finest hotel in Kansas City for nearly 15 years, earning the nickname, Palatial Pacific.

The elegant Victorian hotel offered 24 guest rooms. The parlor at the top of the curving stairs opened to a large outdoor veranda that overlooked the front of the hotel. The hotel also held a ballroom, a dining hall, a men’s billiard hall, and a magnificent bar. It was owned for a time by an uncle of Jesse and Frank James.

Water Closets and Outhouses

By 2000 B.C., indoor plumbing for bathing as well as sanitation was being used in parts of the world. Remnants of toilets and sewers have been found in the ruins of ancient cities in Pakistan as well as in Rome.

The first flushing toilet was invented in 1596. Unfortunately, it did not flush after every use, and nothing kept the fumes from rising in the room. As a result, it never gained popularity.

In 1775, a Scotsman named Alexander Cummings invented the S-trap in the plumbing for flushing toilets. It allowed water to be trapped, keeping the stench from escaping. In a tribute to its design, the S-trap is still used today.

When a flush toilet was added to a home, it was placed wherever it would fit in the house, often in a small space by itself. That was usually under the stairs or in a closet. From that came the name, water closet.

While flush toilets quickly caught on, ridding cities of waste materials was now an even bigger problem. The cities stunk. In addition, the raw sewage led to outbreaks of diseases including cholera and typhoid. Still, London’s first sewer system as not begun until 1859. In America, the first sewage treatment plant was built in 1890 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Of course, as flushing toilets became more popular, the narrow pipes that removed the water required something more dissolvable than wads of newspaper or corncobs.

In 1857, Joseph Gayetty of New York invented the first toilet paper. His paper product was designed specifically for wiping. However, it was too expensive and did not catch on.

Clarence and Irvin Scott designed a perforated roll of toilet paper in 1890. Hotels and other distributors bought their products under various names. The Scott brothers were embarrassed by the association of their family name with the paper and did not add their name to their invention until 1903.

Outhouses were a mainstay for most people in rural America for many years. A large hole was dug in the ground, and a small shack called the outhouse was placed over it. The shack was made of available materials, hopefully with a hinged door. The seats on the inside were usually made of wood. While some outhouses contained one hole (one open base to sit on), others had several. Toilet paper, once invented, was a luxury and often not available. Corn cobs and newspapers were a common part of the cleanup process.

When the opening beneath the outhouse filled to about two thirds full, a new hole was dug, and the outhouse was moved to the new location. The old opening was filled with dirt.

If one was lucky enough to find a public outhouse while traveling, the likelihood of anything to clean with would have been rare. Users were expected to bring their own materials. In fact, according to some stories, that is where the term wrong hand came from. Folks ate with one hand and wiped with the other. Since most people were righthanded, the left hand became associated with the wrong hand.

Indoor plumbing in the United States was not common until the 1930s. It was even later than that for some of the rural areas.

Jesse James

Jesse Woodson James was born September 5, 1847, near Kearney in Clay County, Missouri. This area of the state was primarily settled by emigrants from Kentucky and Tennessee. It soon became known as Little Dixie. Alexander Franklin James or Frank was Jesse’s older brother. Jesse also had a younger sister, Susan Lavenia James.

Jesse James died in St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 3, 1882. He was shot in the back by Bob Ford, an eager, new recruit to Jesse’s gang. Ford was fascinated by Jesse, but he also wanted the bounty money he was allegedly promised by Missouri governor, Thomas T. Crittenden, reward money offered by the railroad and express corporations.

Remembered as an outlaw, Jesse James is known to have robbed numerous banks and trains although some he has been credited with probably were not his doing. Some say he was a Robin Hood-like outlaw. Others say he was only for himself. Regardless of what he did, Jesse James was certainly a product of his time and place in the violent history of the Kansas and Missouri border.

The Pinkertons

A barrel maker by trade, Allan Pinkerton immigrated to the Chicago area in 1842. Five years later, while searching for lumber along the Fox River, he came across a band of counterfeiters. He surveilled the gang and helped the police to make arrests.

He was soon offered the position of deputy sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. Shortly after that, he became Chicago’s first detective and an agent for the United States Postal Service. In 1850, he opened his own private investigation firm, Pinkerton National Detective Agency. In 1856, Pinkerton hired the first-ever female detective, 23-year-old widow, Kate Warne, whom Pinkerton said was one of the best investigators he ever employed. The agency was also the first to create a criminal database and was a precursor to the Secret Service.

By the late 1850s, Pinkerton’s men, or Pinks, were well-known for hunting down outlaws, especially train robbers, and offering private security for the railroads. The company’s logo was a large, unblinking eye with the slogan, We Never Sleep. That slogan gave rise to the term, private eye.

The Kansas Towns of Victoria and Herzog

Victoria, Kansas, is in Ellis County on the south side of Interstate 70 about 11 miles east of Hays. In 1880, two towns were located there. While Victoria was a British colony, Herzog, to the north, was begun by Volga Germans.

George Grant arrived in America in 1872 in search of a location to build his country estate where he planned to retire. He was a successful silk merchant so proximity to the railroad was important to him. After arriving in Ellis County, Kansas, in the fall of 1872, Grant purchased nearly 100,000 acres of land from the Kansas Pacific Railroad. With his land purchased and his community planned, he returned to England to recruit families of nobility.

Thirty-eight Scottish and English immigrants were the first inhabitants of the new town of Victoria, named after Queen Victoria of England. Grant was very specific in his requirements of the type of cattle, sheep, and crops that were to be produced in his new community as well as the types of houses that were to be built.

While the original inhabitants of the new town of Victoria were families, many of those who followed became known as remittance men. These young men were provided money by their families in England. Although the money was sent to purchase land and businesses, the young noblemen were more interested in entertainment. Soon, Victoria was home to the Victoria Hunt Club, a racetrack, and a cricket club. Dances and other social activities were common, and money was spent freely.

Some parents began to reduce their sons’ allowances when they realized the money was not being used as they expected. As the funds dried up, more and more of the young playboys returned to England. Other settlers found the land and the wind unwelcoming, and they followed.

While Victoria struggled to survive, in 1876, a large group of Volga Germans (German Russians) settled on the north side of the railroad tracks about one-half mile north of Victoria. They named their new town Herzog.

Herzog grew quickly. Because it had so many inhabitants, it soon became the most important of the many German colonies in Ellis County.

By the turn of the century, Herzog and Victoria were essentially merged. Their official merger took place in 1913, and the combined towns became Victoria.

Angus Cattle

When Grant returned to Ellis County with his first recruited settlers on May 17, 1873, he also brought four black Aberdeen Angus bulls to cross with his Texas longhorns. These were the first Angus cattle introduced in the United States. Ten years after the first bulls were imported, the American Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association was formed.

The Angus breed was considered freakish by some and unusual by all because the cattle were polled—that is, they had no horns. Also, they were the only breed that was all black. However, they soon caught on. The angus bulls crossed well with the longhorns and produced calves that handled the harsh winters as well as the hot summers. In addition, the Angus-cross cattle gained weight more efficiently than the longhorn breed.

Bierocks

Bierocks are a culinary delight readily found in many parts of Kansas, and especially where there is a high population of Volga German descendants. They consist of a sweet, leavened dough filled with cooked ground beef, chopped onion, and shredded cabbage or sometimes sauerkraut (fermented cabbage). They are oven-baked until they are golden brown.

The bierock originated in Russia and was brought to Ellis County, Kansas, by the Volga Germans in the 1870s. In their home country, this delicious meat pocket was called a pirogi. Those hard-working Germans also brought with them Turkey Red seed wheat (a nutrient-dense, hard red winter wheat) and peony bulbs.

Ellinwood, Kansas, and Its Underground Town

Located on Highway 56 about ten miles east of Great Bend, Kansas, the little town of Ellinwood is rich in history. Although it was not settled by German immigrants, the original founders gave many of the town’s streets German names to appeal to German settlers.

The Santa Fe Trail met the north bank of the Arkansas River on the west edge of present-day Ellinwood and was active from about 1821 to 1880. This location was also a popular camping spot for wagon trains as well as for soldiers and traders because of the easy access to water. In addition, Ellinwood was a cowtown for a time.

The town was begun in 1871 when the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad chose that area as part of their route. When the post office opened February 1, 1872, the name of Ellinwood was chosen in honor of Colonel John R. Ellinwood, a civil engineer who worked for the Santa Fe railroad.

When Abilene, Kansas, told Texas cattlemen that their herds were no longer welcome, a number of residents from the new town of Ellsworth, Kansas, traveled south and invited drovers to bring their herds there.

Large herds of cattle were driven up the Cox Cattle Trail, an offshoot of the Chisholm Trail, to Ellsworth from the mid-1860s until 1873. Even though the Ellinwood businesses wanted their money, efforts were made by the local farmers to stop the drives from coming through Barton County. This was due not only to the amount of grass and crops they consumed but because of tick fever as well. Kansas lawmakers listened and new laws pushed the herds farther to the west.

The rapid growth of Ellinwood in the 1870s and 1880s caused many new businesses to go underground. Before long, tunnels and passageways connecting the underground businesses filled the two-block-long main street on both sides of the street. Many of those businesses catered to men. Around eleven saloons were known to operate under the streets as well as a harness shop, a barber shop, a laundry and bath area, several brothels, a merchandise sample room, and even a meat storage area.

The tunnels were divided by a rock wall with a narrower tunnel on the street side where the coal dropped from the sidewalk above was stored. The wider tunnel to the inside was the width of a man’s arms stretched outward—supposedly so he could hold himself upright as he traveled between the many places of interest after imbibing too much of the local brew or whiskey.

Not all the tunnels are currently traversable as the city filled some of them in when the sidewalks began to sag. The rest were filled in the 1980s. However, parts have been restored and tours are available. The thick, brick and rock walls still stand in the tunnels that have been uncovered. Some of the businesses are also intact. They include a saloon, the stocked harness shop, a bath area, and the barber shop. The sample shop and a small book exchange are also visible.

Ellinwood was not the only Kansas town or city to build tunnels beneath their streets. Tunnels were quite common, and their reasons were varied although most began for utilitarian purposes. Caldwell, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Leavenworth, Douglass, and Fort Scott also have tunnels beneath some of their streets. However, only Ellinwood has actively promoted this piece of history as a tourist attraction—so far, anyway.

The Wolf Hotel

The Wolf Hotel was built in 1894 in Ellinwood by John Wolf for around $10,000. It was built as an addition to the Delmonico Hotel which once stood just north of the still-standing Wolf Hotel. The Wolf addition boasted fifteen rooms, a new lobby, underground stores, and the Bank of Ellinwood. The combined hotels were called the National Hotel. The large hotel was a sought-after place to stay on the plains of Kansas.

I refer to the Wolf Hotel in this novel even though it was built later than the timeline of this story. However, I thought the history of the old hotel needed to be included.

The First Barbed Wire

The first wire fences consisted of one strand of wire and no barbs. Cattle constantly pushed through or broke the single wires. In November of 1868, Michael Kelly patented his improvement to wire fencing by twisting two wires together allowing them to hold barbs. His invention became known as the thorny fence, and was much more effective. The two-strand, twisted design made it stronger, and the barbs demanded the cattle’s respect since the barbs had sharp points.

In 1874, Joseph Glidden, a farmer from DeKalb, Illinois, designed a method to lock the barbs in place on the double-strand wire. He also invented machinery capable of mass-producing his creation. Glidden’s United States patent was issued on November 24, 1874, six years after the invention of the barbed fence. His patent survived court challenges from multiple inventors. He prevailed not only in the court but also in the marketplace. Mass production of the wire made it more affordable, and by 1880, around a million miles of barbed wire fencing were being added each year in the West.

Barbed wire drastically changed how cattle were handled in America, especially in the West, though not everyone appreciated the new invention. It limited the movement of people and cattle. The long lines of fence often had few gates, and maintenance involved riding the fences to look for loose or broken wires. Many cowboys detested fences of any kind, and riding fences was not a favored job.

Barbed Wire and Telephone Lines

Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone in 1876, and early phone companies focused on the urban areas. Wires and poles were expensive, and there were not enough people in the far-flung rural areas to justify the cost.

However, the rural areas had barbed wire. For a $25 investment that included a phone and batteries, a farmer or rancher could build his own phone system using his barbed wire fencing. Fence posts were built with whatever material was available, and the necessary insulators to run the telephone wires were designed with the same ingenuity. To turn the metal fence wire into a telephone line, it just had to be connected to the telephone with a piece of smooth wire.

Typically, the top wire of the three-wire fence was used as the phone line. Any material available was used to separate the wire from the post to prevent grounding, including leather scraps and corncobs. However, the most accessible were the necks of glass bottles.

Glass was used to store many liquid items, especially alcohol. Once emptied, it became trash and was discarded. Alcohol bottles and saloons gave innovative men a ready supply of insulators.

The glass bottle necks were broken off and wooden pegs were whittled to fit into the bottle opening. Holes were drilled in the pegs to allow for attachment to the fence, and the barbed wire was run across the outside groove of the attached bottle neck.

With no switchboard, all phones on the system rang at the same time so specific rings were created for each family—a long and a short ring, two longs, etc. Most systems also had one ring meant for everyone. This was how they participated as a group whether in an emergency, to share good news, or for community music on a Sunday night. The system only allowed calls within the network. Long-distance calling was not available.

Up to 20 phones could be connected through one system. However, the more phones and the longer the wire, the poorer the connection. Still, it was better than nothing.

The party line also offered the opportunity to listen in on calls other than your own, and many chose to do that. However, when more people picked up their phones to listen, the poorer the connection became.

Rural ingenuity connected the inventions of barbed wire and the telephone in ways no one likely foresaw. This rural phone system was commonly used through the 1910s and in some locations, even later. However, the party line system remained long after that, with some still in use in the rural areas of America in the 1980s.

The Great Cat Heist

Cats are not native to America. However, once they were introduced, they reproduced rapidly. For many residents of the early West, cats were appreciated. Rodents such as mice and rats were an ongoing problem.

Seth Bullock was sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, in the late 1800s. In some of his notations about his work, he wrote about a wagonload of cats that was hauled to Deadwood in 1876. The story below combines his account with other sources.

Dora DuFran, a notorious madam at the time, contracted a local teamster, Phatty Thompson, to deliver cats to her brothel, the Green Front Hotel in Deadwood. Not only were the rodents dirty and destructive, but the male patrons often tried to shoot them, endangering residents and causing even more damage.

Phatty often made runs of freight between the town of Cheyenne in the Wyoming Territory, and Deadwood in the South Dakota Territory. Being a businessman, he decided to fill his wagon with cats.

When he arrived in Cheyenne, he offered some local boys $.25 for each healthy cat they caught. Of course, domestic cats were easier to catch so many pets were part of the 80 cats that disappeared from Cheyenne that night. Included in that haul was a pet Maltese.

It took about three weeks to haul a load of anything between Deadwood and Cheyenne, and the cats were no different—although their noise level was much higher. They did escape once when Phatty’s wagon overturned, either at Lightening Creek or Spring Creek depending on the quoted source. They were tempted with food and herded back into the large cage.

When Phatty arrived in Deadwood, he allegedly sold his cats for $10 each. A Maltese cat brought $25. There is no record of him making a second run of cats anywhere although his profit would have been high on that load.

Whether all the cats were sold or how many escaped is somewhat disputed. However, by 1877, the cat population in Deadwood had exploded. It was also around that time when brothels were first called cat houses. Coincidence? Perhaps…

Camels in the West

In 1855, Congress approved funding for the purchase and importation of camels and dromedaries to be employed for military purposes. By 1857, the United States Army owned 75 camels. They were placed at Camp Verde in Texas and were used to haul supplies to San Antonio. In June of that year, the herd was split and around 24 were sent to California.

There was some success in the experiment. Records show a California camel train making a successful summer drive 1,200-plus miles through semi-arid land and mountains. The camels traveled 30 to 40 miles per day and carried over 1,000 pounds each. In addition, they could travel for six to ten days with no water.

Unfortunately, the promoters of this scheme focused only on the camels’ assets. None of their vices were discussed, nor did anyone consider the language the camels were used to. The camels were trained in Arabic and were talked to softly. In addition, their native drivers were born into the business, bringing with them over 1,000 years of experience.

The muleskinners could not give commands in a language the camels could understand nor were the camels used to shouting and cursing. In addition, the camels were not as agile as mules and often collided with each other on narrow trails. They were despised by the teamsters who were expected to trail them.

The camels’ ability to escape during the night and travel 16 miles an hour to locations unknown was another aggravation. They would leave if turned loose to graze, and an evening stroll of 25-30 miles was common. The teamsters preferred to shoot them rather than return them to camp.

Horses and mules shared the teamsters’ dislike of camels. A camel’s unfamiliar call and smell as well as his size terrified most domestic animals. The frightened horses broke loose and stampeded across the plains, followed by the mules. Every effort to organize a camel caravan resulted in chaos.

While the introduction of the camels was initially pushed as a solution to chasing marauding Indians through their barren homelands, there is no record of that ever happening. However, the Indians of the Southwest did acquire a taste for the huge, ungainly animals, and they hunted them for meat.

When the Civil War began, many camels were turned loose to fend for themselves. Others were sold at auction. The camels that roamed freely continued to terrorize the mule trains. They appeared suddenly and spooked the mules, scattering freight and drivers. The great ships of the desert had become the terrors of the plains. Even when not in use, camels were despised.

Camels were actively used for less than ten years by the United States Army. For many troopers and teamsters, that was ten years too long.

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I hope you enjoy this novel as much or more than the first nine in this series. May it be another book that is hard to put down! My books are all available on my website listed below or ask for them at your favorite library or bookstore. Digital and paperback copies are also available through most online booksellers. Thank you for choosing to read my Home on the Range series.

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April 1, 1880

Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory

Chapter 1

Because of a Woman

Miguel stepped out of the livery and stared up the street. The letter falling out of his vest pocket caught his eye, and he cursed under his breath as he shoved it back in.

"Nettie, I guess you did just what you said you were going to do. You went and married another fellow because you were too afraid to love me.

Well, Ned’s a good man and he will treat you right. Miguel laughed wryly as he stared down the street toward the Tin House. Guess these last six months of trying to reform went out the window. I’ll just go back to my old ways. It’s easier on my heart even if it’s harder on my body.

Miguel sauntered down the street. His face usually had a smile hiding just under the surface, and while he didn’t smile as much as his brother, Angel, he did laugh easily. Black, curly hair showed from under his hat and the bushy mustache on his upper lip needed trimming.

Women called to him from their windows as he strolled by the dance halls and saloons. Miguel waved at them as he grinned, but he shook his head.

"Not today, ladies. These two days were for remembering and thinking. Perhaps another day. I must get back home,