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- Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into the Western women's experience that was less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. During the late nineteenth century, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boomtowns, women of easy virtue followed wayward paths west of the Mississippi when they pursued fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory.
Wicked Women pulls together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery and includes famous names like Belle Starr, Eleanora Dumont, and Big Nose Kate. Read also about Madam Josie Washburn, who defended her profession and lambasted hypocrites in newspaper editorials; cardsharp Kitty LeRoy, whose distracting good looks gave her a decided advantage at faro tables; and Poker Alice, who didn't let ubiquitous male chauvinism or even, anti-gambling laws prevent her from pursuing a lucrative career.