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Butts J. Lee (Jimmy Lee) |
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Titolo |
Texas bad girls : hussies, harlots, and horse thieves / / J. Lee Butts |
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Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lone Star Books, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (155 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Texas |
Women outlaws - Texas |
Female offenders - Texas |
Crime - Texas - History |
Texas Biography |
Texas Social conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Chapter 1: Pistol Packin' Mama Sally Skull; Chapter 2: Hang 'Er High Chipita Rodriguez; Chapter 3: Cathouse Madams A Bevy of Shady Ladies; Chapter 4: The Sittin' Hens of the Chicken Ranch Mrs. Swine, Jessie Williams, and Edna Milton; Chapter 5: Texas's Biggest Harlot Sarah Bowman; Chapter 6: Hell's Belle Belle Starr; Chapter 7: The She Devil and the Dark Angel Beulah Morose; Chapter 8: Mistress of the Manor Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt (or Butts) Porter |
Chapter 9: A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma Etta PlaceChapter 10: Neighbors from Hell Allen Hill, Dusky, Nance, and Family; Chapter 11: AKA Carlotta J. Thompkins, Mystic Maude, and the Angel of San Antonio Lottie Deno; Chapter 12: Nekkid, Nekkid, Nekkid! Adah Isaacs Menken; Chapter 13: A Good Girl Gone Bad Bonnie Parker; Chapter 14: It's Sad, So Sad Janis Joplin; Chapter 15: A Bad Girl Gone Good Karla Faye Tucker; Bibliography; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Sometimes humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes deeply sad and moving--such are the biographies of fifteen Texas bad girls. Husband killers, run-of-the-mill murderers, whorehouse madams, |
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prostitutes, gamblers, bank robbers, floozies--each contributes immeasurably to a rowdy, ribald history that dates from the state's earliest settlers to yesterday's biggest news story"--Provided by publisher. |
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