May Hutton in high society attire

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This file appears in: The Formidable May Hutton

Image Courtesy of the Washington State Digital Archives, Spokane Historic Preservation Office Photograph Collection.

This file appears in: The Formidable May Hutton

By Keith Shelton
In 1883, orphan May Arkwright moved to Idaho from Ohio where she worked as a saloon cook and opened up her own boarding house, where she quickly gained a reputation as the "best cook in the Coeur…