June 6 – Also on this day in 1917 a story circulated
statewide about a woman from Columbus, Ohio, who sent a letter to Butte Mayor
W.H. Maloney asking him to help her find a husband so she could do her part on
the home front during WWI. “I want to do something for my country and at the
same time for myself,” the woman wrote. “I want to be a war bride, but I want a
western man for a husband, one who will ride a horse in France and distinguish
himself. If possible get me a cowboy.”
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