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Red Harrington

Red Harrington in 1869.

Helena "Red" Harrington (1822 - 1896) was an American dancer and former prostitute.

Biography[]

Helena Harrington was born in Louisiana in 1822. In 1843, she left her home and her abusive parents and moved to Colby, Texas where she lived and worked as a prostitute. At some point in her life, she was a ballerina who lost her leg to the cannibalistic Butch Cavendish.

In 1869, she met John Reid, a lawyer who later became The Lone Ranger and Tonto a legendary Comanche warrior who rode with the Ranger. Harrington helped them to defeat Butch due to his hatred against him.

During the Promontory Point Ceremony, Harrington and her boduguard carried a wagon full of explosives near the US Calvalry soldiers with Harrington made explode with a shotgun inside her ivory-leg while she was seducing Captain Jay Fuller. Then she and her bodyguard escaped from there.

She died of old age in 1896.

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