I rode into the Lower Valley of Mason County Kansas, the first time in 1868. Lorrie Camden was 22 and working in the saloon in Harbor town, Kansas. She had been there in town for three weeks. Their ranch was twenty miles due south on a small creek. I had stopped there over night the night before and met her young husband.
Brian Camden was a tall very handsome young man about her same age. He told me, it had gotten too dangerous for his family to stay there at the ranch so he had taken them to town. They had not been well acquainted in the area, but he was friends with Robert Harbor who's Father, Milton owned the Bank, and Saloon.
The young couple had very little money and had hoped she could find employment at his friend's Bank. But they found that was not the case. He'd told me the money she'd had would be gone by now.
"Milton wants my wife, Lorrie to work in his saloon."
"He offered her a job cleaning rooms and such there?"
"No Mister, that was never an offer to Lorrie. He wants her up on his stage to entertain and upstairs to service his customers."
"So, she is to become a sex worker in his saloon."
"Yes, Sir they just didn't give us many choices. In fact for her to just to be able to stay there with our kids, they wanted her to go upstairs with them. The both of them. I sat outside in our wagon with our kids while she did it."
They sounded like real good friends to me.
"So, your wife had sex with them both to be able to stay there?"
"Yes, she was up there for several hours with them, then I finally saw them bringing her downstairs. My wife has very nice breasts and I saw they were bare. The piano started and I could see she was naked dancing on stage. Robert came outside to talk to me. He had one of the girls take our kids back inside to a room."
"Did they see their mom up on stage?"
"I am not sure if they did. Robert said his father had talked her into dancing for his customers. He wanted her to go back upstairs with some customers. They wanted me to tell her it was okay to do it."
"And did you do that."
"I went inside and watched her dance. She is very beautiful. I knew she was very turned-on dancing. And she had just spent some time with the two men having sex. So, did it really matter? When she leaned down and told me they wanted her to go up with some of the customers. Did I think she should? I just told her it would be much easier if she did. She just turned and went with a guy back up the stairs. He had his hand on her ass like he owned her and I guess he did. I turned and left."
"And you left her there?"
"Robert told me they really wanted her to work in the saloon and he thanked me for telling her to do it."
So, his young wife had been in town for three weeks now and I was sure she'd been working in the saloon since then. I rode on into town the next afternoon. On my ride into the small town I gave what I had learned from young Brian about his wife Lorrie. His ranch was not the most dangerous place in the area. He is friends with Robert Harbor.
Young Brian and his family had been in town several times. He had told me that because of the danger out at the ranch, Robert had told him Lorrie would be much safer in town. And that they could provide a good job for her and care for their children. I had then ask him if they had offered her work in the bank?
"No, they wanted Lorrie to work in the saloon."
"And you are okay with that?"
And as more of their story came out I learned.
"Well Robert was walking out with Lorrie when I met her. Her father ran the store in town. Robert had told me he and Lorrie were very sexually involved. And he said that his father had been with her several times too. But when her father died I ask her to marry me and she did. Our little boy was born soon after. And a little over a year our girl was born. Robert said he and his father had both enjoyed Lorrie and they wanted her to work in the saloon."
"Are you really sure they had both been with Lorrie?"
"Yes, I am very sure they were both with my wife before. He described her breasts perfectly. And some of how she responds while having sex too. I ask her if she had been with either of them sexually. She didn't admit or say no. I pressed her about it and she finally said Yes to both. I ask if it had happened just once? She answered no several times. I ask if it was only with Robert. She said no, with both of them."
"So, you agreed to give her to them?"