A Special Kind of Childhood
Nellie May was the youngest of three children in the Mooney family. She experienced a unique kind of childhood and upbringing in a lot of different ways. She was raised as a staunch Catholic, learning what she could from the priest who would visit the Mooneys now and then on horseback.
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Growing up on the ranch, she had to fend for herself and learn many critical skills from an early age to help out the family. Even as a young girl, she already knew how to ride a horse and shoot a rifle.