Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) |
Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Libby Thompson; Kitty LeRoy; Tessie Wall; Lottie Deno; Julia Bulette; Alice Ivers; Jennie Rogers; Eleanora Dumont; Madam Harriet; Minnie Smith; Jessie Hayman; Gertrudis Maria Barceló; Josie Washburn; Kate O'Leary; Martha Jane Canary; Kate Horony; Jenny Rowe; Florence Mabel Dedrick; Belle Starr; Jessie Reeves and Cad Thompson; Belle Siddons; Mattie Silks; Belle Ryan Cora; Rosa May; Laura Bell McDaniel; Mary Hamlin; Ella Watson; Rose Ellis; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Summary |
"This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. During the late nineteenth century, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boom towns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi when they followed fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory. Prostitutes and female gamblers hoped to capitalize on the vices of the intrepid pioneers. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser known characters"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
Women outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Women gamblers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Prostitutes -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Crime -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Criminals & Outlaws.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Crime
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Prostitutes
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Women
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Women gamblers
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Women outlaws
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
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West United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021677478 |
ISBN |
9781493013920 |
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1493013920 |
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