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A Female Highwayman Rides to Frisco On a Stage
In a memoir style tale from the Argonaut, a woman called Marthy Williams stages a dramatic bank-like loan extraction during a San Luis Obispo to San Miguel stage ride. Her shotgun confrontation with husband Williams ends with the crew looting and resuming travel, the driver and others amused by the audacious raid and the woman’s bold leadership.
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Man Williams
Frisco
San Luis
Mrs. Jeffreys
Tom
Bill
Morgan
Old Man Williams
Baxter
Williams
Morror
Santa Margarita
Old Williams
Santa Barbara
San Miguel
Nacimiento River
Nacimiento Crossing
Pleito Ranch
Jim
Plesto
Argonaut