CSPAN3 The Civil War October 12, 2014
Early years that we do not know. But we know that she was trained as a teacher in iowa, probably. You can imagine, as an irish immigrant, probably poor, it was her way into the middle class. Then to find yourself in ward, colorado, a small mountain town, but bigger than boulder in those days. It had never had a school teacher. She was brought here by a guy who owned the mine and realize d that the workers that he had were starting to have children and they were not getting any education. The story goes, she taught in a saloon. During the day they cleared out all the evidence of the revelry in ...