Amanda Carpenter has one defining characteristic - she enjoys the pleasure of men. She is an explosive mixture of passion and danger - she will use a straight razor to shave her legs or to discourage a suitor with equal dexterity.
Rumors abound of her past. The truth may be known one day but not until Amanda is good and ready. Now that she is in Curtis Wells, Amanda has used her considerable persuasion and money from grifting to acquire the Lonesome Dove Hotel, and turns it into a popular watering hole that flies in the face of Mosby's authoritarian control. Under her management, it becomes a bawdier, more raucous place where, if one keeps an open ear, one can learn anything that goes on in Curtis Wells - and the surrounding world. With her dreams intact, Amanda intends to build up her bank account, and eventually arrive in San Francisco in style. Until then, she's a woman running from her past - and towards her future - with equal energy.
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