Belle Starr
Subtitle: "the Bandit Queen"
By: Burton Rascoe ; introduction by Glenda Riley.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Starr, Belle, 1848-1889; Women outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: xxii, 340 p. : 21 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-336) and index.
"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!"