Chariton Iowa
The Heroine Of Hot Springs’ Iowa Connection
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“She emptied her revolver into the elk and laid him low at her horse’s feet,” a Massachusetts newspaper described how an Iowa woman named Maggie Foreman brought down the “king of the mountains.” It was the summer of 1879; and Maggie, a Chariton, Iowa, resident was visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Jim Adams, in Hot Springs, Wyo., where Adams made his living as a hunter and scout.