GUINAN, TEXAS. Owner of or principal attraction at many speakeasies during Prohibition; b. Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan, Waco, Texas, ; d. Vancouver, British Columbia, .
Born on a small ranch near Waco, Texas, to Irish immigrants
Michael
and
Bessie Guinan
, Mary Guinan learned to ride horses and handle a lariat, and when she was older she enjoyed a brief career as a bronco-buster and received the nickname Texas.
In 1898 she traveled to Chicago for music...