thornhappy -> RE: If Collarme Were An Old Western... (5/25/2009 7:23:18 AM)
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Charley Parkhurst, also known as One Eyed Charley or Six-Horse Charley, was born as Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst in Lebanon, New Hampshire and grew up there in an orphanage owned by a man named Millshark. He worked as a stable boy for Ebeneezer Balch located first in Worcester, Massachusetts,[2] and later in Providence, Rhode Island; then in the "What Cheer Stables" at the back of the Franklin House Inn in Providence for the next couple of years. About 1849, two friends, James E. Birch and Frank Stevens, went to California and consolidated several small stage lines into the California Stage Company. Charley moved there and started to work for them. Shortly after arriving he lost the use of one eye after a kick from a horse. He had a reputation as one of the finest stage coach drivers on the west coast.
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