[tubebender]

>Lode Woman...< After reading the story twice, they must be referring to the vicinity she came from. Sonora is Gold country and the miners referred to the area as the Mother Lode?

[TigersEye]

You’ve got me. That’s as good a guess as any. There is a town called Lodi and I think it’s in CA. Or NV or AZ. But another town name doesn’t fit. I think journalism is for people that should have dropped out of school but didn’t.