Elsa Jane Guerin - Mountain Charley; Or, the Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire (Western Frontier Library)

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title	:	Mountain Charley : Or, the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire; an Autobiography Comprising a Period of Thirteen Years Life in the States, California, and Pike's Peak The Western Frontier Library
author	:	Guerin, Elsa Jane.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806119640
print isbn13	:	9780806119649
ebook isbn13	:	9780585193984
language	:	English
subject	Guerin, Elsa Jane, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
publication date	:	1968
lcc	:	F593.G9 1968eb
ddc	:	917.8
subject	:	Guerin, Elsa Jane, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)

Page i THE WESTERN FRONTIER LIBRARY

Page v Mountain Charley Or the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire An Autobiography Comprising a Period of Thirteen Years Life in the States, California, and Pike's Peak With an Introduction by Fred M. Mazzulla and William Kostka

Page vi ISBN: 0-8061-1964-0 (paper) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-15671 New edition copyright 1968 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First printing of the new edition, 1968; second printing, 1985; third printing, 1986.

Page vii Introduction This autobiography of Mountain Charley is the story of an intriguing character of the West and the Colorado Gold Rush era. The story is especially fascinating because Mountain Charley was a woman, one of the earliest of the captivating young ladies whose exploits add spice to the chronicles of the times. In the beginning, her story reads like a romanticized novel; further on, however, her tale rings with more than a semblance of truth. This is particularly illustrated by the description of Mountain Charley's wagon trek to California in the spring of 1855. She kept a diary on this trip, with detailed records of such trail markers as Court House and Chimney Rock, Scott's Bluff, Mormon Ferry, and Independence Rock, which guided the California and Oregon wagon trains. There is an even greater ring of authenticity after Mountain Charley, lured by a new bonanza, appeared along with the first of the Pikes Peak gold seekers in the spring of 1859. The places mentioned, misspelled as they often were in those days, still exist. There is a record of the Denver saloon she claims to have owned twice during her short stay in the mining regions. It was called the Mountain Boy's Saloon. A saloon of that name is described in the 1866 Denver Directory as the fourth building on the right, walking eastward

Page viii from Cherry Creek along Blake Street. This was one of Denver's principal business streets in 1860, when Mountain Charley owned the saloon and married her bartender, H. L. Guerin. In the fall of 1860, she left with Guerin to return to the East. The Russell brothers, as well as John H. Gregory, have been credited with first or prior discovery of Pikes Peak gold. Researchers will strike high-grade ore in the last chapter where Mountain Charley records verbatim, two authentic, non-conflicting statements. By the way, who was first? Mrs. E. J. Guerin published her autobiography of Mountain Charley in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1861. It was "published for the author," and the book's subhead reads: "An Autobiography Comprising a Period of Thirteen Years Life in the States, California, and Pike's Peak." The author probably had only a few copies printed, and they soon disappeared. By 1953, when Charles L. Camp revised the third edition of Henry R. Wagner's The Plains and the Rockies (a bibliography of original narratives of travel and adventure from 1860 to 1865), only one copy was known to exist. That copy was in the private collection of Fred Rosenstock and later sold by him to Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, its present owner, who generously allowed it to be used for this edition. This Western Frontier Library edition of the autobiography of Mountain Charley is, of course, not a facsimile of the original; however, the text remains unchanged. None of its flaws, such as the omission of Chapter VIII, are corrected. Apparently, either the author or the printer inadvertently skipped Chapter VIII as the original narrative flows smoothly from Chapter VII directly into Chapter IX. In the daily diary after the date July 31 is reached, some puzzling dates follow with no month named until another

Page ix "31st of July" is reached. That was the day Mountain Charley climbed a mountain and saw Salt Lake seventy-five miles away to the west. In August, Mountain Charley, the men of the train, and their mules and cattle are described as plodding ankle-deep in soda and alkali dust across the desert beyond Salt Lake. Is it possible that Mrs. Guerin decided to publish her autobiography so quickly after returning to "the States" because she had heard of other young ladies who also claimed to be Mountain Charley? Anyone who has researched the early public press of the West has encountered other stories about Mountain Charley. He will be perplexed if he tries to reconcile the facts in each tale with Mrs. Guerin's autobiography, with the purpose of compiling the one authentic account of Mountain Charley's adventures. At least three of these tales are well known, and further research might reveal others. The first story was published on September 10, 1859, in Denver's Rocky Mountain News; a second in the Leadville, Colorado, Daily Chronicle on July 15, 1879; and the third and longest in the Colorado Transcript of Golden, Colorado, in January, February, and March, 1885. The Rocky Mountain News

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