Bessie Launder Richards was the wife of a mining engineer and raised her family in Mexico and the western United States in the early 1900s. Richards was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1885 and moved to St. Elmo, Colorado in 1892 after her father passed away. She remained there until she married Edwin R. Richards and moved to various locations in California before landing in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1908. After the overthrow of Porfirio Díaz in 1911, Richards settled in Berkeley in order for her children to graduate from high school and university and then moved to Monterrey to be with her husband in 1923. In this interview, Richards discusses her family background, move to Colorado, life in St. Elmo, running a hotel, education, marriage in 1904, Mexico, train trip to Guanajuato in 1908, life at the Pinguico and La Luz mines, revolutions in Mexico, time in Nevada mines, residence in Monterrey, 1923-28, Sombrerete, Zacatecas in 1929, and life in La Noria during the Mexican revolution of the late 1920s.