Outlaw Women America's most notorious daughters, wives, and mothers
Robert Barr Smith.
- viii, 180 pages illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index.
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.
"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, and highway robbery. It includes famous names like Belle Starr and lesser known characters as well. The book also contains archival illustrations and photographs"--Provided by publisher.