In August 1885, the Colorado Transcript recounted how Jim Boyd’s wife, determined to peddle vegetables in Denver despite her husband’s doubts, quickly proved successful. Jim agreed to let her try, saying she could keep her earnings unless she gave up within a month, in which case he would take what she had made. Her first small load brought in seven dollars by noon, and Jim responded by piling a much larger load of peas, beans, pie-plant, onions, beets, and radishes onto the wagon for her next trip. She returned at noon again, this time with twenty-four dollars and an order so large that Jim knew it would take a week to fill, including dozens of pie plant, onions, radishes, lettuce, and carrots, along with gallons of peas, beans, and gooseberries, hundreds of pounds of cabbage and spinach, sacks of turnips, and boxes of strawberries. The account said this was only one of many orders she brought back, and that by the end of three months she was ahead three hundred dollars in cash while Jim had gained little. The accompanying caption identifies Joel and Matilda Palmer, who came to Golden by wagon train from Utica, New York, in 1860 to farm; Matilda bore the first white baby in the territory, and by 1890 they had raised eleven children in Golden.