Wicked women : notorious, mischievous, and wayward ladies from the Old West
Title:
Wicked women : notorious, mischievous, and wayward ladies from the Old West
Author:
Enss, Chris, 1961- , author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2015]
Physical Description:
xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"--
Language:
English
Contents:
Libby Thompson: squirrel tooth Alice -- Kitty LeRoy: the deadly paramour -- Tessie Wall: Barbary Coast madam -- Lottie Deno: the cosmopolitan gambler -- Julia Bulette: siren of the silver town -- Alice Ivers: Deadwood cardsharp -- Jennie Rogers: Queen of the Denver Row -- Eleanora Dumont: the twenty-one dealer -- Madam Harriet: a curious criminal case -- Minnie Smith: a violent hand -- Jessie Hayman: the San Francisco favorite -- Gertrudis Maria Barceló: the evening angel -- Josie Washburn: Nebraska's reluctant madam -- Kate O'Leary: the redheaded rival -- Martha Jane Canary: the Black Hills calamity -- Kate Horony: the Hungarian madam -- Jenny Rowe: the faro bandit -- Florence Mabel Dedrick: our sister of the street -- Belle Starr: the outlaw gambler -- Jessie Reeves and Cad Thompson: scarlet ladies in Texas and Nevada -- Belle Siddons: the reformed spy -- Mattie Silks: Denver's red light royalty -- Belle Ryan Cora: the loyal gambler -- Rosa May: the outcast's friend -- Laura Bell McDaniel: courtesan of Colorado City -- Mary Hamlin: Mary the owl -- Ella Watsaon: Wyoming cattle baroness -- Rose Ellis: last of the Old West madams.
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ISBN:
9781493008018
Format :
Book
