Foster County Independent - The Official Newspaper for Foster County

Mustache Maude . . . with a name like that you know there have to be a few stories. And there are. She didn’t start out with that name, of course. Her real name was deceptively soft and feminine: Clara Belle Rose. She was born in July 1873 in Tracy, Minnesota.

While Clara Belle loved her father, she locked horns with her mother and ran away when she was 15. Using the excuse of going to Minne...