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.
I loved this book. It had so much information that I had never heard that I find myself wanting to read it again. Great job.
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