Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Old West

by Michael Rutter

Overview

Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming. Meet these fascinating characters, complete with their pistols and petticoats, their knives and knaves, their vices and victims.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560374626
Publisher:	Farcountry Press
Publication date:	05/28/2008
Series:	Bedside Reader
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     v
Introduction     vi
Serial Killers: Harpies Most Horrible     1
Kate Bender: The Benders' Bloody Inn     2
Ma Steffleback: Galena's Bloody Madam     10
Western Legends: Women Larger than Life     14
Calamity Jane: The Facts about the Legend     16
Sally Skull: Horse Trader, Gun Runner, and Five-Time Wife     25
Elizabeth, Josie, and Ann Bassett: The Wild Women of Brown's Park     31
Women, Gallows, and Lynch Mobs: Death by Hanging for the Innocent and Guilty     48
Elizabeth Potts: Nevada's First Woman Executed by Hanging     50
Ellen Watson: The First Woman Hanged in Wyoming     58
Outlaw Molls: Standing By Her Bad Man     65
The Rose of Cimarron: Common Country Girl or Epic Heroine?     67
Belle Starr: Not Quite the Bandit Queen     72
Laura Bullion: A Flower in the Wild Bunch     83
Annie Rogers: The Bawdy Woman and the Bad Guy     91
Etta Place: The Enigma of Sundance's Girl     95
Little Britches and Cattle Annie: Teenybopper Bad Girls     99
Skirts, Flirts, and Six-Guns: Exceptional Verve and Viciousness     106
Cora Hubbard: Bank Robbing Belle     108
Madam Moustache: A DoubleShotgun Blast for the Lover Who Took All     114
Pearl Hart: Arizona's Lady Stagecoach Robber     122
Madam Vestal: The Faro Queen and the Deadwood Highway Woman     130
Ah Toy: An Exploited Woman Exploits Others     138
Bibliography     148
Index     153