Outlaw Women : the Wild West's Most Notorious Daughters, Wives, and Mothers.

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author Robert Barr Smith's books on the American frontier. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Col. Robert Barr
Other Authors: Smith, Robert Barr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, MD : TwoDot, 2015.
Subjects:
Women outlaws > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Female offenders > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Women > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Crime > West (U.S.) > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Crime
Female offenders
Frontier and pioneer life
Social conditions
Women
Women outlaws
West (U.S.) > Biography.
West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
West United States
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Legend in her own mind : Belle Starr
  • Black widow : Belle Gunness
  • Communing with the spirits : Katie Bender
  • Machinegun Kate : Ma Barker
  • Rank amateur : Pearl Hart
  • The Rabbit : Edna Murray
  • The ghosts of Indian Territory : the Dalton ladies
  • Hot stuff : Chicago May Churchill
  • The second Belle Starr : Cora Hubbard
  • The Bobbed-Hair Bandit : Cecelia Clooney
  • Greek tragedy : Bonnie Parker
  • The Rose of the Cimarron : Rosa Dunn
  • Vicious : Ma Staffleback
  • Shady ladies and disreputable damsels
  • Lady Macbeth : Kathryn Kelly
  • Death wore a veil : Henrietta Robinson
  • A message from hell : Lavinia Fisher
  • You can't chop your momma up in Massachusetts : Lizzie Borden
  • The empty ones : the Dragon Lady and Shoebox Annie
  • Swindler extraordinaire : Sophie Lyons
  • Class act : the Wild Bunch ladies
  • Just a pinch of arsenic : Nannie Doss and Judi Buenoano
  • The shame of Hippocrates : three faithless medics
  • The modest ambition of Jane Toppan
  • The gentle ladies of New York
  • Afterword.

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