The Adulterous Ranch Wife
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This story comes from a history book “Boss Cowman” and helps one understand why once upon a time in America adultery was an infrequent act. It was in Nevada, 1880, where a ranch couple was living happily ever after until one of the ranch hands incurred a broken leg and was in need of tending to. A job the young wife took to while her husband tended to the open range cattle. One day the husband returned from the range, I now quote from the book, “When he got back he found two notes on the kitchen table, one from his wife who wrote she found no complaint against him but she found she loved another more truly, the other from the cowboy saying he had 100 dollars in wages coming he was taking the team and buckboard in settlement and leaving.” Well the husband saddled a fresh horse took off caught up. Then…then he did something…killed. No, he did not kill the adulterers he killed something else, and it’s what he did with that something else, and what society didn’t do afterwards, that’s the rest of the untold story told at anotheruntoldstory.com, posted there but a brief time. But, if you take time to go there, you’ll understand why once upon a time there was little adultery in America.
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