Saturday Snippet: If They Want the Other Kind of Woman...

The following is from my second book in my Eastern Sierra Brides 1884 series. A Resurrected Heart is about "Resurrection Day" in Lundy, California in April, 1884. It has nothing to do with the resurrection associated with Easter.

Beth shook her head. When she first started serving the miners who had wintered over, it had taken a few sharply-spoken words on her part and a few slashes through the air by Gus with his meat cleaver to convince the men that Beth was a respectable widow who worked as a cook only. Only once since being in Lundy had she felt the need to pull her father’s old hunting knife from the sheath she kept strapped to the calf of her leg with its tip tucked into the top of her boot. So far, she had not needed to pull from her pocket her double-barrel Derringer to persuade the men to keep their hands to themselves and watch what they said around her.

But, an entirely new group of miners were pouring into town. Many were good family men who left their wives and children in towns like Bodie or Carson City in order to find top-paying work in the mines. Others were drifters and trouble-makers who saw the mines as a means to build up a cache in order to move on to someplace more exciting. She wondered with this new bunch how long she would need to stand her ground in order to convince the men that she expected to be treated like the respectable widow she was. If they wanted the other kind of women, the kind that out-numbered the wives, daughters and other decent women in town, the Arcade was not the place for them. Like her late husband, they needed to go two blocks down towards the lake past China Charley’s and over a block or two.

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