Wicked Women of Missouri

by Larry Wood

Overview

Marauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of "Outlaw State," but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle "Queen of the Bandits" Starr and Cora Hubbard kept Missouri's sensationalist newspapers and dime novelists in business with exploits ranging from horse thefts to bank heists. Missouri native Ma Barker and her murderous sons rose to infamy during the gangster era of the 1930s while Bonnie Parker crisscrossed the state with Clyde Barrow. From savvy burlesque dancers to deadly gold diggers, historian Larry Wood chronicles the titillating stories of ten of the Show-Me State's shadiest ladies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467119665
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/25/2016
Series:	Wicked
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,061,846
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Author of six other books with The History Press, Larry Wood is a retired public school teacher and a freelance writer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

1 Belle Starr, Queen of the Bandits 9

2 All the Pretty' Horse Thieves 21

3 Cora Hubbard, Female Bank Robber 33

4 Zeo Zoc Wilkins, Gold Digger Extraordinaire 41

5 Serial Killer Bertha Gilford 55

6 Irene McCann: From Good Girl to Bad Woman 71

7 "Suicide Sal": The Story of Bonnie Parker 77

8 Ma Barker and Her Murderous Sons 91

9 The Sextraordinary Sally Rand 97

10 Bonnie Heady and the Greenlease Kidnapping 107

Notes 119

Bibliography 129

Index 133

About the Author 139