Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West

Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West

by Chris Enss
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West

Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West

by Chris Enss

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493008018
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 02/20/2015
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,011,939
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Chris Enss is an author, scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television and film, and performed on cruise ships and on stage. She has worked with award-winning musicians, writers, directors, producers, and as a screenwriter for Tricor Entertainment, but her passion is for telling the stories of the men and women who shaped the history and mythology of the American West. Some of the most famous names in history, not to mention film and popular culture, populate her books. She’s written or co-written more than two dozen books for TwoDot. She lives in Grass Valley, California. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction viii

Squirrel Tooth Alice Libby Thompson 1

The Deadly Paramour Kitty LeRoy 8

Barbary Coast Madam Tessie Wall 14

The Cosmopolitan Gambler Lottie Deno 25

Siren of the Silver Town Julia Bulette 33

Deadwood Cardsharp Alice Ivers 40

Queen of the Denver Row Jennie Rogers 47

The Twenty-One Dealer Eleanora Dumont 56

A Curious Criminal Case Madam Harriet 62

A Violent Hand Minnie Smith 65

The San Francisco Favorite Jessie Hayman 69

The Evening Angel Gertrudis Maria Barcelo 77

Nebraska's Reluctant Madam Josie Washburn 82

The Redheaded Rival Kate G'Leary 90

The Black Hills Calamity Martha Jane Canary 97

The Hungarian Madam Kate Horony 105

The Faro Bandit Jenny Rowe 112

Our Sister of the Street Florence Mabel Dedrick 117

The Outlaw Gambler Belle Starr 120

Scarlet Ladies in Texas and Nevada Jessie Reeves Cad Thompson 128

The Reformed Spy Belle Siddons 133

Denver's Red Light Royalty Mattie Silks 140

The Loyal Gambler Belle Ryan Cora 147

The Outcast's Friend Rosa May 154

Courtesan of Colorado City Laura Bell McDaniel 161

Mary the Owl Mary Hamlin 168

Wyoming Cattle Baroness Ella Watson 176

Last of the Old West Madams Rose Ellis 185

Bibliography 191

Index 201

About the Author 210

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