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Belle Starr - "The Bandit Queen" (Paperback, New)
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Belle Starr - "The Bandit Queen" (Paperback, New)
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List price R512
Loot Price R483
Discovery Miles 4 830
You Save R29 (6%)
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Legendary comrade and consort to train robbers, bootleggers,
stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves,
cattle thieves, and outlaws of all stripes, Belle Star (1848-89)
was born in Missouri and emigrated with her family to Texas in
1863. Myth made her a dancehall entertainer, faro dealer, expert
horsewoman, crack shot, and adopted member of the Cherokee Nation.
Was her first love Cole Younger, a cousin and associate of Jesse
James, and did she bear his child in 1869? And when she settled at
Younger's Bend on the Canadian River in Indian Territory, did she
really establish a haven for desperadoes, mastermind a string of
criminal enterprises, and entertain a series of lovers, all of whom
met with violent ends? Did the dime novelists invent her flamboyant
dress, musical abilities, literary tastes, colorful language, and
determined refusal to occupy "a woman's place"? Or was she an
original free spirit whose force of personality and violation of
all normal standards of conduct made her the perfect antiheroine of
the Western frontier? Burton Rascoe's classic biography separates
the facts from the folklore and traces the sources and afterlives
of the fictional accounts published after her mysterious and
unsolved murder. Glenda Riley's introduction adds new evidence to
help get behind the layers of oral history, hyperbole, and outright
lies. Burton Rascoe (1892-1957) worked as an editor and critic for
numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune,
Vanity Fair, Esquire, and Newsweek, and was the author of nine
books. Glenda Riley is Alexander M. Bracken Professor Emerita of
History at Ball State University. She is the author of Women and
Nature: Saving the "Wild" West (Nebraska 1999) and Taking Land,
Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya,
1840-1940.
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