The American West by Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg

“A noted gunslinger amongst the ranks of the lady gamblers of the West was Madame Moustache, who followed the hell-on-wheels towns that accompanied the Union Pacific’s end of track across the continent. Eureka, Nevada, Bannack, San Francisco, Corinne, Utah, Nevada City and Grass Valley all knew the quick hand of Madame Moustache. Finally she drifted to Bodie, wickedest city of all, where two imprudent footpads attempted to hold her up on the way home one night with the house bank. She killed one and the other escaped. In 1879, still at Bodie, Madame Moustache’s luck ran out with unalterable finality. She killed herself with prussic acid.”

—Beebe & Clegg, 1955