Mar 23, 2021
But Did She Do It? The Trials of Gilded Age Showgirl Nan Patterson
But Did She Do It? The Trials of Gilded Age Showgirl Nan Patterson
On a late spring evening in New York in 1904, a couple was in a horse-drawn hansom cab headed for the pier on the Hudson River. Caesar Young, a bookie who’d made a fortune from property and racehorses, was about to sail to Europe, but with another woman – his wife. Margaret Young wanted her husband far away from showgirl Nan Patterson. Nan became famous in 1901 after she was cast as one of the…
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