Belle Starr the truth behind the Wild West legend
"In the annals of legendary Wild West desperadoes, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly romanticized, sensational book titled Bella Starr... The Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James was published--the first in a series of high-profi...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2025]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Belle Starr : |b the truth behind the Wild West legend / |c Michael Wallis. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Truth behind the Wild West legend |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, |c [2025] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2025 | |
| 300 | |a xv, 446 pages : |b illustrations, map, portraits ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-423) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Map: Belle Starr country -- Introduction -- Part I -- In the country of the six bulls -- Young Myra in Carthage -- "The war that never goes away" -- All torn asunder -- Myra on the scout -- Turning point -- Part II -- Gone to Texas -- Armed and dangerous -- Jimmy and May -- On the scout -- Southern California : an "island" in the sun -- Living the outlaw life in Texas -- Sheer greed -- Jim Reed's last hurrah -- Repercussions -- Out of the shadows -- Part III -- The glare of the limelight -- The legend takes root -- The birth of Belle Starr -- Hell on the border -- Myth versus reality -- The legend grows -- The curtain falls -- Who killed Belle Starr? -- Epilogue: Print the legend -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a "In the annals of legendary Wild West desperadoes, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly romanticized, sensational book titled Bella Starr... The Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James was published--the first in a series of high-profile portraits to brand Starr as a villain. Now, celebrated author Michael Wallis parses over a century of mythmaking to reveal the woman behind the renegade legend. Wielding compelling research, including correspondence, official records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Wallis traces Starr's beginnings to Carthage, Missouri, where she was born Myra Maibelle Shirley in 1848 and was classically educated to be a Southern belle. Myra's early years were characterized by the chaotic violence of the Civil War--she was traumatized by the death of her brother, who was killed riding with "bushwhackers," one of the many insurgent guerrilla groups supporting the Confederate Army. From then on, she swore revenge against all Yankees and became a willing "friend to any brave and gallant outlaw." The crimes committed by Starr's innermost circle -- stagecoach stickups, bank robbery, horse theft--would take her from war-torn Carthage to rollicking Scyene, Texas, until she finally settled in Indian Territory (present Oklahoma). And although Starr indeed ran in the same circles as notorious outlaws Jesse James and the Younger brothers, the crimes ascribed to her were greatly embellished--including the fact that the allegedly bloodthirsty Starr more than likely never killed a single person. Turning a redemptive eye to Belle Starr's tarnished legacy, Wallis crafts an illuminating portrait of a woman demonized for refusing to accept the genteel Victorian ideals expected of her, a woman who chose instead to live her life outside the law, riding sidesaddle with a pearl-handled Colt .45 strapped to her hip"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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