Wicked Women
"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 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"--
209 pages, 7 editions
English edition · First published 2015 by TwoDot · ISBN 9781493013920
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7 editions
English
- Wicked Women · TwoDot · 2015 · ISBN 9781493013920 This page
- Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies From the Old West · Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9798200002245
- Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies From the Old West · Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9798200002238
- Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies From the Old West · Tantor Audio · 2015 · ISBN 9781494566401
- Wicked Women · Globe Pequot Press, The · 2015 · ISBN 9781336018969
- Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies From the Old West · Tantor Audio · 2015 · ISBN 9781494516406
- Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies From the Old West · TwoDot · 2015 · ISBN 9781493008018
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