Women of the Frontier by Brandon Marie Miller

Author:Brandon Marie Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2013-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Charlotte “Lotta” Crabtree

“Golden Wonder” of the Stage

In 1855, the mining town of Rabbit Creek, California, witnessed the debut of a local performer, Miss Lotta Crabtree. The show opened in a log theater tacked onto a saloon run by Mart Taylor, a one-time strolling actor who dispensed whiskey along with dance and singing lessons. Meaning to cash in on Lotta’s talents, Taylor featured his prized pupil clad in green breeches and a hat. Lotta kicked, twirled, and tapped through an evening of spirited jigs and reels mixed with sentimental Irish ballads. The little redhead’s performance tugged the heartstrings of lonely miners, many of them Irish, just as Taylor had planned. After her last bow, Lotta’s mother Mary Ann swept up the coins and golden nuggets tossed onto the stage by the grateful miners. Taylor immediately planned a tour through the mining camps, featuring his new sensation. Lotta Crabtree was eight years old.

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