Posted on 02/06/2022 8:01:28 AM PST by ammodotcom
Basically everyone has heard of Jesse James. Slightly more obscure is Belle Starr, an outlaw from the same Wild West era, albeit one without the name recognition of James and his gang, with whom she had some ties. In her time she was known as the Bandit Queen and the Petticoat Terror of the Plains. Perhaps most interestingly of all, she was murdered and her murder remains officially unsolved to this day.
Her birth name was Myra Maybelle Shirley (her family mostly knew her as “May”) and she hailed from Carthage, Missouri. Although a prosperous farmer in the region, her father was considered the black sheep of his prominent, old-stock Virginia family. In fact, her father had been divorced twice when she came along, scandalous at the time. Starr was the daughter of his third wife, who had family ties to the Hatfields of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud.
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There was an old movie about her, with Gene Tierney, I think…
Hah. You can watch it on the free streaming service Tubi.
1968 spaghetti western “The Belle Starr Story” is available full length 720p on YouTube.
Now that the story has been published, shouldn't the author be given due credit by changing the title to "Belle Starr: The Previously Untold Story of the American Outlaw Known as the Bandit Queen"?
Just wondering...
Calamity Jane featured in a musical starring Doris Day.
Of course today Trudeau could play Calamity Jane with little or no makeup, bearing a startling resemblance as well as earning the sobriquet of Calamity Justine...just sayin'.
Was it really a she?!
Calamity Jane in “Deadwood”
Was Great!
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I’ve only seen the 1st Season as of now.
Yep. Doris “Squeaky Clean” Day.
I met people that looked like her, they were friends of my parents. Grandma came to California on a wagon and my dad helped his father smuggle bootleg from Canada to the US. People were different looking, and WERE different BITD.
We are pampered and powder puffed as people, we who were born after WW2. We are no better than those who struggled to eat daily, and wore the clothing or the manner of the ruffian.
I try and love everybody, but judging those who are “less than” is not the correct way to see things. Lighten up. todays standards are not normal in history.
It gets more intense.
A far cry from the popular sentiment that anyone who doesn’t adhere to postmodern sensibilities is worse than John Wayne Gacy.
If you were to watch “The Egg and I”. Ma Kettle visited our home when I was a child. Of course not the actress or someone by that name. Just a very large woman, who ruled over her skinny hubby like a prison guards, and swore like she was a Navy Chief.
My parents thought she was funny, and the couple were probably in their 60’s in the 1960’s. They just had never dressed modernly, or acted like people did at that time.
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