 She came to Vancouver, British Columbia en route to Calgary, Alberta, where she hoped to find herself a cowboy to wed (she had worked in a saddle factory in Kansas City, and she and her sister, Bess, had corresponded with cowboys who had written in response to the notes they had tucked into the most expensive saddles being shipped north).In Vancouver, she found work as a secretary and office manager for Orange-Canadian establishment scion and junior publisher George Murray and soon after married him, in spite of their religious differences (she was an ardent Catholic—and madly in love with George—her entire life).She won continent-wide fame for some of her columns - either because she had a point, or because they were downright funny, and often coarse - or at least matter-of-fact.