The Two Worlds of Molly Curtis

May 21, 2007 at 4:11 AM

Her father was an Army Scout named Dick Curtis and her mother was a Cheyenne woman whom he had married. At age six she was "lost" in a poker game at Ft. Sill and a civilian employee Hauser said he would wait till she was eighteen to marry her and sent her to the finest boarding school which included music lessons. In 1872 she came back to Ft. Sill to be married but after the marriage she took off, her obligation completed.

She later married an Indian named Big Nose and dropped out of sight and surfaced years later in Ft. Yates Dakota Territory as a maid for an Army Officer wife who brought her into her house and told her what to do and went upstairs.

A little while later she heard some of her most difficult Piano pieces being played flawlessly and ran down stairs to see what guest had come to see her. What she saw was Molly Curtis sitting at the piano playing music she could not play.

Molly left a short time later and no one ever saw her again. "Child of the fighting Tenth - Birdie Hooker"

From Jim W. Miller
Posted on May 21, 2007 at 4:39 AM

This is amazingly similar to my own story. Except it wasn't poker, it was canasta. And I didn't marry Big Nose; I married Big Butt.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on May 21, 2007 at 5:42 AM

Thanks, Jim. I needed a good laugh.

From Robert Berentz
Posted on May 22, 2007 at 2:03 PM

It is sometimes obvious which conductors we "allow" to "take our lead".

One piece of music, two different songs.

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