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Wicked Women of New Mexico, by Donna Blake Birchell

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About the Author

Donna Birchell is the author of Carlsbad and Carlsbad Caverns, Eddy County" and "New Mexico Wine: An Enchanting History." She developed a passion for history through the inspiration of her history-buff parents, William and Dorothy Blake. While doing research for her other books, New Mexican Donna discovered a lack of combined written history about the slightly tarnished and definitely wicked ladies of New Mexico and thought the oversight should be corrected."

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Series: Wicked

Paperback: 128 pages

Publisher: The History Press; First Edition, First Printing edition (March 4, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 162619128X

ISBN-13: 978-1626191280

Product Dimensions:

6 x 0.3 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#710,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This book was published in 2014 by The History Press. The author had written three other books about New Mexico and in the course of researching them, discovered a lack of written history about the wicked ladies of New Mexico. So she decided to correct that oversight.The book is divided into three sections: Lady Killers, Gambling Queens, and Soiled Doves. A total of fourteen chapters offer fascinating reading.In the section on “Lady Killers,” the author tells the story of Valentina Madrid and Alma Lyons, partners in a crime of passion. Valentina was only fifteen years old when she married a Hillsboro Business owner, Manuel Madrid. He was several years older than Valentina. He was a hard-working farmer. Valentina moved her childhood friend and maid, Alma Lyons, into the household. Alma was described in the newspapers as a “girl of color.” Unfortunately, Valentina was not quite mature enough for marriage. She was flirty and caught the attention of Fancisco Baca, a worker on the farm. Manuel became suspicious that his wife was fooling around on him so he told his wife and Baca to stay away from one another.Baca, with visions of dollar signs in his head, told Valentina that the only way they could be happy was if she were a widow. Then, they could marry. He was thinking of how well-off he’d be once she had inherited her husband’s farm. He urged Valentina to poison her husband. He and Valentina gave Alma money to buy “Rough on Rats” rat poison at the mercantile. Valentina mixed a lethal dose of it into Manuel’s morning coffee.Rough on Rats was a phrase familiar to me from a book by that title that I bought about twenty years ago. Here’s the description of the product: “The thing desired found at last! Something rats will eat, once eaten death sure. Rats are smart but Rough on Rats beats them. It clears out a building in one application.”Within days, Manuel suffered excruciating stomach pain and eventually died. It would have been considered a normal death if Manuel’s brother had not called on Dr. Frank Given to examine the body on the deathbed. Dr. Given discovered the poison and made his report to the coroner’s jury.The Sierra County Grand Jury indicted Valentina, Alma, and Baca for first-degree murder. The newspapers described the women as “weak-minded and moral degenerates.” During the trial they acted like they did not have a care in the world.The girls would have received the death sentence except for two circumstances. 1. Pleas from newspapers, civic leaders, and Alma’s father. 2. The acting governor of the Territory of New Mexico wanted the girls alive to testify against Baca.Baca was tried twice. The first trial ended in a mistrial. His second trial ended in an acquittal. He went free and the girls went back to jail. Many years later, the girls were pardoned. Valentina went to work on her brother’s ranch and faded into the background. Alma had a more checkered history but ended up living with her father, brother, and son in Santa Fe.Now, we’re going to move ahead to the last section of the book, Soiled Doves, and learn about Sadie Orchard, Lady with a Heart of Gold. Sadie was a farmer’s daughter from Iowa. She spent many hours listening to her neighbors tell about England. When Sadie was fourteen, her mother died, and three years later, her father was killed by a neighbor. No information is available about how Sadie got into prostitution, but it evidently happened when she moved to New Mexico Territory in 1886. She spoke with a cockney accent and claimed to be from the Limehouse District in the east side of London.Prostitution brought Sadie two things she desired: respectability and money. According to this author, madams were as revered as the sheriff or banker. Sadie dressed in fine silk dresses and diamond jewelry in the evening. When she went out riding, she wore a tailored riding habit and rode high-stepping horses.Sadie started her brothel business in Kingston, New Mexico. When she noticed that the town had no church, she helped raise money to build one. After the Panic of 1893 she moved to Hillsdale. A smallpox epidemic hit the town. When children died, Sadie and her girls lined their coffins with silk from their own dresses. And when the doctor became overwhelmed with patients, Sadie and three of her girls helped to care for the infected. They proudly stated that no one died while in their care.In July of 1893, Sadie married Jack Orchard, who was described as lackluster but knew a good thing when he saw it, so latched onto Sadie’s apron strings. They started the Mountain Pride Stagecoach Line that served the communities of Lake Valley, Kingston, and Hillsboro. Sadie trained the horses that pulled the stagecoaches, and she was one of the drivers.Her marriage was as rocky as the mountains in which she lived. Evidently alcohol led to bumps in the relationship. In 1901, the couple was divorced and thereafter, Sadie referred to herself as a widow even though she kept the Orchard name.In 1896 Sadie opened the Ocean Grove hotel, restaurant, and pleasure house. Her Chinese cook served up some of the best meals in the area. She also opened the Orchard Hotel and stables. Her customers there included Jesse James, the Dalton brothers, and Butch Cassidy.When an influenza epidemic hit Hillsboro in 1918, Sadie and her girls took care of many of the afflicted, reportedly saving many lives. Her acts of kindness earned her the label, “Angel of Mercy.”Although her businesses were reported as successful, Sadie died nearly penniless in 1943 at the age of eighty-four. She was buried in Hot Springs, now known as Truth or Consequences, because Hillsboro was too rocky to dig a grave. Sadie summed up her own life in these words: “I’m a product of the Old West, and you know, in those days, we didn’t have much chance to practice the niceties of high society.”So there you have two stories of the wicked women of New Mexico. All of the other stories in this book are just as fascinating. As you read them, you realize you just can’t make this stuff up. The truth in these pages is way better than fiction.

This is just an awesome book! I have lived in New Mexico for over 62 years and I learned so much from these pages! I've read many historical accounts of New Mexico and it's peoples before but never in this detail and in an interesting way. This was a page turner. Many thanks to the author and her great detail and many hours of research!!

This was an interesting read, especially for anyone who is familiar with the area.

Interesting little book filled with vignettes of how and why these women "went bad". An easy read.

Very interesting mix of characters from New Mexico's past. Good lens into the difficulty of being a frontier woman.

I really enjoyed learning the history of my home state and of the struggles these women went through. Life was not easy for anyone. I learned that life was even harder for the women of the time.

I have lived in New Mexico all my life and never knew of these women, it was nice to see history of NM women no matter what their history was

Very interesting..... Since I live close to some of the areas that these stories took place.Some of these Wicked Women had a good sense of business and became very wealthy.Easy and interesting reading.

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