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Ella Watson, also known as Cattle Kate, is remembered as a bordello madame who accepted stolen cattle in exchange for her "services."

Credit: Western History Research Center

From Helena Huntington Smith, The War on Powder River (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1966)