02112oam 2200397z- 450 991015776210332120151002080223.01-56037-535-3(CKB)3710000001009875(VLeBooks)9781560375357(EXLCZ)99371000000100987520210505c2012uuuu -u- -engBedside Book of Bad GirlsFarcountry Incorporated1 online resource (1 p.)1-56037-462-4 Meet Kate Bender, who brutally murdered as many as thirty people in Kansas, including children, and buried them in her family's orchard; Laura Bullion, the only woman to participate in a Wild Bunch train robbery; and Madam Vestal, a one-time Confederate spy who organized the famous Deadwood stagecoach robberies. Witness the execution of Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming.Drawing on fact and folklore, author and historian Michael Rutter brings 21 gun-slinging "bad girls" to life, and explores their motives, hopes, and dreams. He dispels many of the myths about these female outlaws, for sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.Featuring forty-two historical images, Bedside Book of Bad Girls sheds light on figures and events often shrouded in fabrication and fantasy. Meet these fascinating characters, complete with their pistols and petticoats, their knives and knaves, their vices and victims.Women outlawsWest (U.S.)BiographyWomen outlawsWest (U.S.)HistoryOutlawsWest (U.S.)BiographyOutlawsWest (U.S.)HistoryFrontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.)West (U.S.)BiographyWomen outlawsWomen outlawsHistory.OutlawsOutlawsHistory.Frontier and pioneer life364.3092/2BRutter Michael160572BOOK9910157762103321Bedside Book of Bad Girls4179054UNINA