Squirrel Tooth Alice

Better known as “Squirrel Tooth Alice,” Mary Elizabeth “Libby” Haley Thompson was a popular “soiled dove” in the frontier cow towns of the American West, despite the gap in her teeth that earned her nickname. 

She was born in 1855 in Belton, Texas, to James and Mary Raybourne Haley. Growing up was difficult for Mary Elizabeth, as the family lost nearly everything during the Civil War. Towards the end of the conflict, things got worse for Libby when Comanche Indians raided the family farm in 1864, and she was kidnapped. She remained with the Comanche for three years until 1867, when her parents paid a ransom for her release.

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