The year was 1863 and not a good time to have to travel back east from Wyoming. But I had no choice but to go. My father was in jail in Boston and had been charged with treason. He had gotten cross ways of a Colonel that I had a history with a few years earlier. I had no idea if that had anything to do with the problems my father had with him. But I had proof that he was very corrupt and I needed to try to get my dad out of the mess he was in.
But I needed to be there to fix it. So I needed to go but could not take my wife out east with me. It just wasn't safe for her to travel with me. In fact it wasn't safe even for me to be going but I had no choice. I am a lawyer and my practice is in Cheyenne, Wyoming. My best friend runs a Saloon and I could think of no one else I would trust to keep Angie safe. Or as safe as I wanted her to be. He told me he could use a hand with keeping his hotel part of his business going.
Angie could run the front desk for him part time for something to do. Now Bradly did have 3 ladies who serviced customers upon request in his hotel and the Saloon. He also did a side business of hiding slaves who came from the slave States And he kept that on the low side as we did have a few who were on the side of the south and believed we all should own a few blacks.
Buck Bradly was a man of many means and south of town he owned a nice small farm back down a lane in an old oak grove where not many people ever ventured. And out there on this farm is where he hid his escaped slaves. It was a beautiful little place and he had these folks plant and take care of it. They grew most of what they needed to eat and enough to sell to make a good profit.
I had taken Angie to the hotel and left her and I boarded the train and headed east the next morning. As the train headed east that morning I knew my wife would be safe, but there were concerns leaving her with my friend. He had told me not to be gone overly long.
"I will tell you I will keep her safe, but i also can say that if tempted for long her sexual needs will put me to the test. I could use a pretty little whore out to the farm. My whores won't lay with the black bucks out there. And I need a woman who will."
"And you think my wife might?"
"I will keep Angie safe but give me a few months and I will corrupt her easily. She is a very caring loving person."
These are the things I had to think about as I was moving east on the train knowing my return could be as much as a year from now. And my friend warned me about what could happen with my wife? I knew she would be safe while I was away, but she also could be a whore by my return?
I was sure he really did plan on Angie becoming the sexual out let for the young men who had been breeders on the plantation farms. They had been used to breed the women there. It was rumored some of the white wives and daughters had even sampled the black breeder studs.
So a young white woman would satisfy their needs quite nicely. And he felt a young wife whose husband was to be gone for months and that she really for safety needed to be kept out of sight would be and could be protected best with the young breeders on his farm.