http://www.jockthemovie.com/mbacon.html
I worked the backstretch a couple summers as a kid. I was friendly with Mary Bacon who was ten years older and a whole world wiser than me.
Mother died in childbirth. Father died in an Alkie ward. Second woman to ride in the U.S. (after Diane Crump). Stabbed. Shot at. Posed in Playboy. Revlon "Charlie" girl. Lost the Revlon deal after speaking at Klan rally. Contracted terminal cancer. Blew her brains out. She was 43.