What a Sheriff's Wife in the Wild West Was REALLY Like

She was never hired, never trained, and never paid a wage — yet three hot meals a day came out of her kitchen for the county's toughest men. She was the sheriff's wife. On the frontier, the sheriff's house and the county jail were often one building, and the woman of the house became cook, laundress, and matron — for nothing. The county paid her husband a fixed sum for every prisoner, every day — and whatever he didn't spend on food, he kept. From Arizona Territory's twenty-five cents a day to the governors who watched the feeding money triple while crime stood still: one evening inside the most dangerous kitchen in the West — the ledger, the ladle, the barred pass-through in the kitchen door, and the women history forgot. Last time — What It Was REALLY Like to Sleep in a Frontier Hotel:    • What It Was REALLY Like to Sleep in a Fron...   CHAPTERS: 0:00 The woman they never hired 0:29 The jail was her house 1:21 No cook was ever hired 1:59 The meal-money machine 2:44 Keep the change 3:23 The ledger 3:56 No law on the books 4:35 What the ladle carried 5:44 Her day, dawn to dark 6:22 Subscribe: the bank next week 6:40 She fed killers 7:14 The wives had names 8:04 Who got rich 8:34 The long goodbye 8:59 The spoon and the job Music: "Olde Timey" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) New videos every day. Saddle up — the truth rides here. #WildWest #OldWestHistory #FrontierLife #Cowboys