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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807256903321

Autore

Butts J. Lee (Jimmy Lee)

Titolo

Texas bad girls : hussies, harlots, and horse thieves / / J. Lee Butts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lone Star Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4930-2617-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Disciplina

920.7209764

Soggetti

Women - Texas

Women outlaws - Texas

Female offenders - Texas

Crime - Texas - History

Texas Biography

Texas Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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,



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.