
509 - Adah Isaacs Menken
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
00:00
Silver Brick, Yes, So Please.
When she left virginia city, miners gifted her a silver brick valued at 403 dollars and 31 cents. Encyclopaedia dot com quote estimates placed the value of gifts and payments of silver and shares of stock at a hundred thousand or more. Now she can wear pants, yes, so and smoke in public. Hundreds are turned away at the door.
Transcript
Play full episode