She was the daughter of Daniel C. & Hetty (Neal) Quick. Her family was of substantial means and highly regarded by their friends and neighbors.

Her mother died in 1886 and when the new Holden College opened for a spring term in 1889 her father enrolled her there. When her father died in the summer of that same year she found herself an orphan at age fifteen.

She married John Mundis, 15 July 1890, Johnson County, Missouri. They spent about a year in and around Holden and then with some very fine "barrowed" horses, from her father's stock, they went to Oklahoma. With her inheritance they purchased a small improved farm, on Cottenwood Creek, west of Guthrey.

In a short time her life began to fall apart. Her husband was a drunkard and the money ran out. It is said this is when she started dressing in men's clothing and stealing horses for a living. She rode under the name "Tom King" throughout the Indian Territory.

Some very tall tales, including train robbery and murder, have been written about her. She was arrested several times and escaped more than once but she was never found guilty of anything more than horse stealing.

By 1900 she had made her way to Clifton, in the territory of Arizona. Here she went by the alias "China Dot" and resided with one William Garland.

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Her brothers were notified about her death and they had the means to have the body shipped home. Did they? Years later when a relative was interviewed he said she was buried in Missouri in the private family plot. If this is true she may have been quietly laid to rest in a grave in the Quick Cemetery. This small cemetery in southwestern Johnson County has been abandon and over grown for many years. Or was her body buried in an unmarked grave in Clifton, Arizona?

Some published stories about Flora Quick;
West of Hell's Fringe by Glenn Shirley
Wildcats in Petticoats by Anton Booker
Real West Mag./Bob Dalton's Bandit Bride by Harold Preece
The West Mag./Flora Quick by Leola Lehman
Heck Thomas; Frontier Marshal/Woman Outlaw by G. Shirly
St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper
The Urich Harold; Vol,10 No.42, Feb. 19, 1903