Iron Women by Chris Enss

Author:Chris Enss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2020-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

The start of the Frank Leslie transcontinental trip on April 10, 1877 ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVES, INC., 5 GREAT VALLEY PARKWAY, MALVERN, PA 19355, 866-296-1488, FRANK LESLIE’S WEEKLY, ONLINE DATABASE, PICTURE WITH CAPTION, PAGE 140, APRIL 28, 1877 ISSUE. HTTP://WWW.ACCESSIBLE-ARCHIVES.COM/

Miriam and Frank were instantly taken with one another, and although both were married to other people, the two began a passionate affair. After Miriam shared with Frank that Ephraim was struggling with his businesses, particularly the railroad, Frank offered Ephraim a job as editor of his illustrated newspaper. Miriam was then named editor of the Leslie Lady’s Magazine. She excelled at the position, contributing numerous articles about life and travel. In a short time, Miriam was editing several of Frank’s many publications.11

By mid-1873, after being involved in an affair for more than eight years, both Miriam and Frank divorced their spouses and were free to marry each other. The couple wed on May 31, 1873, and purchased a new home in New York on Fifth Avenue. The new Mrs. Frank Leslie wasted no time establishing herself among the most elite in New York society. She was, however, no more faithful to her third husband than she had been to the second. American poet and frontiersman Joaquin Miller and Miriam began a thirty-year affair shortly after the Leslies’ honeymoon ended.12

Although Miriam had taken advantage of the many opportunities to visit destinations around the world with her husbands and lovers, travel continued to excite her. Embarking on a cross-country trip in specially designed railroad carriages with good friends and the promise of witnessing some of America’s most beautiful locations gave Miriam a thrill. She was eager to report on the excursion in future editions of Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. She hoped those reports would promote train travel and encourage readers to take to the rails.13

When the members of the Leslie party first stepped into the Wagner coaches, they were pleasantly surprised by the opulent interior. Once the guests adjusted themselves to the pristine setting, they agreed to refer to the palace car simply as “home.” “And very soon after reaching such a decision,” Miriam explained in her journal, “the car assumed the pleasant aspect suggested by the word, as the bouquets, shawls, rugs, sofa-cushions, and various personalities of the three ladies of the party were developed and arranged upon or around a table in the central division of the car, which was to represent the general salon, our end being partitioned off by curtains to serve as bowers for such of the party as had given hostages to society in the shape of husband or wife; while the other end, also screened by curtains, became a pleasant Bohemia where the artists, litterateurs and photographers of the party sleep and work.”14

The Leslie excursion’s first significant scenic stop was Niagara Falls. Harry, also known as Henry Ogden, sketched a view of the falls from Prospect Point. His artwork was included with Miriam’s description of the sight she wrote in her book about the trip west.15

“The first impressions

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