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“Mustache” Maude Black, along with her husband Ott Black, is the woman who takes Mooshum and Junesse in when they run away from home in their early teens. A real historical figure, Maude was a rancher in North Dakota at the turn of the 20th century, known for her unusual height, her tendency to curse, and her willingness to provide aid and sanctuary to marginalized members of society. In the novel, Maude throws a wedding party for Mooshum and Junesse and later protects Mooshum from arrest by a white mob, sending him back to his allotment so as to keep him safe.
“Mustache” Maude Black Quotes in The Plague of Doves
The The Plague of Doves quotes below are all either spoken by “Mustache” Maude Black or refer to “Mustache” Maude Black. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The story could have been true, for, as I have said, there really was a Mustache Maude Black with a husband named Ott. Only sometimes Maude was the one to claim Mooshum as her son in the story and sometimes she went on to claim she’d had an affair with Chief Gall. And sometimes Ott Black plugged the man in the gut. But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with facts. Saint Joseph’s Church was named for the carpenter who believed his wife, reared a son not his own, and is revered as the patron saint of our bold and passionate people, the Metis. Those doves were surely the passenger pigeons of legend and truth, whose numbers were such that nobody thought they could possibly ever be wiped from the earth.
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“Mustache” Maude Black Quotes in The Plague of Doves
The The Plague of Doves quotes below are all either spoken by “Mustache” Maude Black or refer to “Mustache” Maude Black. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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2. The Plague of Doves
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The story could have been true, for, as I have said, there really was a Mustache Maude Black with a husband named Ott. Only sometimes Maude was the one to claim Mooshum as her son in the story and sometimes she went on to claim she’d had an affair with Chief Gall. And sometimes Ott Black plugged the man in the gut. But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with facts. Saint Joseph’s Church was named for the carpenter who believed his wife, reared a son not his own, and is revered as the patron saint of our bold and passionate people, the Metis. Those doves were surely the passenger pigeons of legend and truth, whose numbers were such that nobody thought they could possibly ever be wiped from the earth.
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