Fourteen months after the original sale, they were sold to a showman, Brower, who had the backing of a wealthy merchant named Joseph Pearson Smith.

Brower was conned by a Texas adventurer, who offered land worth an estimated $45,000 as a purchase price for the twins.

He and his wife provided the twins with an education and taught them to speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing.

[1]: 125 In 1869, a biography on the twins, titled History and Medical Description of the Two-Headed Girl, was sold during their public appearances.

[4] Joanne Fish Martell, former court reporter, discovered a memoir written by the girls at the age of 17 and used that and other sources to create her book Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, which was published in 2000.

When they were in their 30s, the twins moved back to the farm where they were born, which their father had bought from Jabez McKay and left to them.

It includes events from their childhood, their kidnapping and movement to England, and finally their return to the United States and a bit of their life afterwards.

The writing is only 22 pages long and contains letters from various physicians attesting to the genuine nature of the twins' conjoined physiology.