Title: Mountain Charley
Description: The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the murder of their husband. As a result, Guerin becomes Mountain Charley and lives as a man in order to find work. This memoir follows the variety of odd jobs they work for years, while living under their new masculine identity. —Digital Transgender Archive
Subjects: Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Male impersonators, Women pioneers, America, history, Women, united states, biography, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), crossdressing, transgender people, transgender men, gender expression, stealth (transgender)
Places: West (U.S.), Texas, Pikes Peak (Tex.), Edwards County (Tex.)
People: Elsa Jane Guerin
Time periods: 1830-1859