Sally Skull, a recycled character

With all our years of experience creating shows and events, we and our artists have many characters in our repertoire, sometimes including their costumes and accessories, everything needed to bring them to life in a new experience, a new event.

Sally Skull is one of those characters we will recycle for our universe "The Far West

Reinvented". A few years ago, before the creation of Eat The Cake Studio, Elena Odessa Ray, one of our four co-founders and the main actress of the team, put together an equestrian show project and her character was Sally Skull, a woman of the American West, little known but fascinating. This is still one of the advantages when working on historical experiences: it allows us to discover incredible historical characters, even if they have been rather forgotten today.

Sally Skull was born in 1817 or 1818 and her family was among the "Old Three Hundred" pioneers who arrived in Texas to live (or survive) despite hostility from native inhabitants and the harshness of life on the "frontier". She had 9 brothers and sisters. Already very young, Sally was brave, taking the neighbor’s rifle from his hands when the coward did not dare shoot marauders approaching the house. Sally started shooting at them and from then on she was hooked on weapons. Sally married her first husband, the hero of her childhood, Jesse Robinson, at the age of 16 but after having two children with him, they divorced. She then married George Scull the same year, but he "disappeared" after a few years and Sally kept his name, changing the "C" to a "K" because it suited her better ("skull" means "cranium" in English). It is supposed that Sally killed George as she is reputed to have done for several of her 5 husbands. Her last husband, who was 22 years younger than her and who was nicknamed "HorseTrough", is probably the one who killed Sally when she was 43.

During her life, she earned a reputation as the toughest, most dangerous and tempestuous, and smartest woman in Texas and maybe the entire American West. She was a horse trader and during the Civil War she transported cotton to Mexico to then send it to Europe and on the way back she brought weapons, ammunition and other supplies for the Confederate army. She liked to dance and swear. Once when she heard a man insult her, she took a pistol in each hand (she could shoot perfectly with either left or right hand) and shot at his feet saying "You speak badly of me, you bastard, now dance, son of a bitch!". Stories of this kind are numerous and all more incredible than the others. In any case, this is a character worth discovering or rediscovering.