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Author Enss, Chris, 1961-

Title Wicked women : notorious, mischievous, and wayward ladies from the Old West / Chris Enss
Published Helena, Montana : TwoDot, [2015]

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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
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Subject Women outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Women gamblers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Prostitutes -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Crime -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Criminals & Outlaws.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Crime
Prostitutes
Women
Women gamblers
Women outlaws
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject West United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021677478
ISBN 9781493013920
1493013920