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Product Identifiers

PublisherGlobe Pequot Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-101493008013

ISBN-139781493008018

eBay Product ID (ePID)201641815

Product Key Features

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

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicWomen, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), General, Criminals & Outlaws, Historical, Prostitution & Sex Trade

IllustratorYes

GenreTrue Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorChris Enss

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-041479

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsChris Enss has put together a specular collection of colorful, powerful, and debauched bad girls who romped, gambled, whored, robbed, and shot their way through life in America's old west. I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed reading this book. Complete with pictures, each woman's story is told with a startling, fresh, to-the-point prose. Mincing no words, the colorful life of each woman is brilliantly portrayed. What truly impressed me is the amount of research and digging the author had to do to uncover details and facts of the lives portrayed. Loved, loved, loved this book. It's one that I will always keep on my favorites bookshelf.

Dewey Decimal364.1092/520978

SynopsisThis 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., 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 ......

LC Classification NumberF596