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| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Mollie Bailey, "Circus Queen of the Southwest," the daughter of William and Mary Arline Kirkland, is believed to have been born on November 2, 1844, on a plantation near Mobile, Alabama. |
 | | As a young woman she eloped with James A. (Gus) Bailey, who played the cornet in his father's circus band, and was married on March 21, 1858. |
 | | Bailey disguised herself as an elderly woman, passed through federal camps pretending to be a cookie seller, and claimed to have taken quinine through enemy lines by hiding packets of it in her hair. |
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