Belgian Jennie - True West Magazine
True West Magazine Jennie Bauters aka “Belgian Jennie” arrived in New York City in 1896 with her 14-year-old son and migrated to Chicago. Three months later she left him with the nuns at St. Ignatius School in Chicago. She took train to Ash Fork, Arizona then hopped another for Jerome. She took $1,000 and bought three lots on East Main Street and opened a brothel and saloon. On Christmas Eve, 1897 a fire broke out that destroyed ten buildings including Jennies. She re-built and on September 11, 1898 another fire on Cleopatra Hill and 100 buildings were and a few months later, on April 21,...
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