Staff Member

It started with an advertisement promising work to women between the ages of 21 and 35. They just had to go to Oatman and enter the dance hall at the “49” camp.

A lot can happen in 80 years. A world war, the work of Albert Einstein, completing the human genome project, and the birth of Tencha Valdez.

Katheran “Kay” and Jerry Claborn celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary April 11.

To come out a national winner in the first year of competition is pretty good. To receive that same award on an international level is even better.

The headline read “Woman drinks bootleg and shoots up town.”

Even more motorcycles than usual were parked out front of Mother Road Harley Davidson Wednesday morning.

The baton is coming to Kingman from Henderson, and there will be a handoff party at 11:30 a.m. April 10 at Mother Road Harley, 2501 Beverly Ave. The Mohave County chapter of the Women in the Wind motorcycle group – the Cactus Cuties – will be there to hand the baton off to a group of women from a San Diego chapter.

It takes a little bit of hope and a whole community of support to open a business and keep it operating.

Women in the Wind all started with an ad. An ad in the classifieds section that simply read “Attention Lady Bikers.”

Most legends contain just enough truth to spark imagination. There are just enough facts to make the story easy to follow, but not enough to easily track, through history or on modern maps.