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Lola Montez in Grass Valley (PH 17-1)(Undated) (40 pages)
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Page: of 40
gatherings which included interested Eastern and
European investors. The early development of the
Empire as a famous gold producer may stand as
proof that she was successful.
Lola, in New York was still the willful, untamable
rebel against the customs of society, and occasion
items of her Eastern escapades appeared in the California newspapers.
Nevada Journal, Jan. 29, 1858: “Lola Montez rode
from Niagara to Buffalo in the baggage car of the
train, in spite of the requests and commands of the
conductor. She went there to smoke and was told that
she must ride where the others did. She took no notice
at first, then said she had travelled all over the world,
had ridden where she chose, and should do so now
The third time she simply looked at the conductor
and said she had horse whipped bigger men, whereupon he dried up instantly.
She began a new career as a lecturer and writer,
which lasted through 1858, until she was stricken by .
a stroke. Grace Green wrote, “It left her helpless,
pitiable, blighted and aged before her time; a fate
most terrible for an organization like hers, all
nerves, fire and action. The kind Samaritans who
nursed Lola Montez in her last sickness said that her
grateful gentleness and humility were very pathetic.”
She died in 1861 at the age of 42 and is buried in
Greenwood Cemetery, New York, in a small threecornered lot marked by a plain white stone, bearing
a prief inscription: “Mrs. Eliza Gilbert, Died Feb.
17, 1861, aged 42.” ;
It seems unfitting to close this series of articles
without allowing Lola the last word: Nevada Journal,
Jan. 1, 1858: (From the Philadelphia Press) “To the .
thousand malicious falsehoods which have been pub.
lished against me, I have never replied, it being my .
determination to leave the events of my life to history, .
while I leave my calumniators to that God who hag
ordained an especial act for the punishment of ‘all
liars’ and who, if the Bible be a true book, will find
the next world a good deal hotter than they have made
this one to me.
LOLA MONTEZ”
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
A special thanks .to Mr ; ; Lyle W
Co eager for locating ttle Linelie Mie
vaieee s series on “Lola Montez in Grass
Beatty House located where the “ e
He tae ae 205 to 209 West Mri eee One
Hane g this hotel and stage office on July 18,
Alta Hall’ was built above th e Alta Saloon.
ae is HOw occupied by part (front-East Saree
S pha Store on Main Street. (Lola’s first dancin
nese was in Alta Hall on July 20, 1853) :
amilton Hall was located at122-S, Church Stre
This was the 1858 structure. ae
Golden Gate Saloon located on part of the lot now
, occupied by the Holbrooke Hotel. (Lola encountered
Editor Henry Shipley in this saloon.).