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Author Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957.

Title Belle Starr : "the Bandit Queen" / Burton Rascoe ; introduction by Glenda Riley.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F594.S8 R375 2004    Available  ---
Description xxii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note "The true story of the romantic and exciting career of the daring and glamourous lady famed in legend and story throughout the West as the beautiful girl who would never have went wrong if things hadn't gone wrong; the true facts about the dastardly deeds and the come-uppence of such Dick Turpins, Robin Hoods and Rini Rinaldos as the Youngers, the Jameses, the Daltons, the Starrs, the Doolins and the Jenningses; the real story with court records and contemporary newspaper accounts and testimony of old Nesters, here and there, in the Southwest; a veritable exposee of badmen and marshals and why crime does not pay!"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-336) and index.
Contents Folklore and history -- Birth and background -- Quantrill's pupils -- Hell and/or Texas -- Indian Territory outlawry -- At Younger's Bend -- "Hanging" Judge Parker and his court -- Belle's death -- Bad men and marshals --The Jennings Gang : comic relief -- Chronology and necrology.
Subject Starr, Belle, 1848-1889.
Starr, Belle, 1848-1889.
Women outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Women outlaws.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Outlaws.
West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0803290039 paperback alkaline paper