Notorious Women Of Old California

Author : Robin C. Johnson
Publisher : California Venture Books
ISBN 13 : 9780578966335
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notorious Women of Old California written by Robin C. Johnson and published by California Venture Books. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early California had its share of colorful residents, men and women alike. After gold was discovered in the largely uninhabited territory in 1849, people flooded in from around the world to seek their fortune, building a bustling international population in accelerated time. It was the natural place for unconventional types to thrive, and the first 50 years of California statehood produced more than its share of fascinating characters, many of them female. For instance, there's Madame Mustache who was a first-rate gambler known throughout the West for her agile fingers at vingt-et-un and the dark line of hair on her upper lip. There was Jeanne Bonnet, a French cross-dresser who caught and sold frogs for a living and launched a crusade to single-handedly liberate prostitutes from their pimps. Sadly, she was murdered, inspiring the never-solved "San Miguel Mystery." And what about the Countess de Henriot who sashayed into San Francisco's Palace Hotel one day with a dozen trunks and servants in tow? She served prospective husbands fine champagne and caviar and let them fawn all over her for months...until somebody started asking questions about her origins. There are these and many more eccentric personalities to discover in this compendium of notorious women of old California, from swindlers to performers to murderers and beyond.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493004336
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlaw Tales of California written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of California 2, with compelling legends of the Golden State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493011499
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Lessons from the Old West written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Calamity Jane’s relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson—and learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife of Wild Bill Hickok and learn about the last love letter he sent before being dealt the dead man’s hand. Learn the story behind the charming performer Lotta Crabtree’s heartaches. And discover the tale of the dashing Kit Carson and his beautiful bride. This collection features the lessons learned by and from the antics of the women who shaped the West.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493013920
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicked Women written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 offers a glimpse into Western Women’s experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. 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.

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110100715X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kitchen God's Wife written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins.

Author : Marjorie K. Lorenz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781930052277
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notorious Women of the West written by Marjorie K. Lorenz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Kazanjian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762768509
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book None Wounded, None Missing, All Dead written by Howard Kazanjian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 17, 1876, Elizabeth Bacon Custer kissed her husband George goodbye and wished him good fortune in his efforts to fulfill the Army’s orders to drive in the Native Americans who would not willingly relocate to a reservation. Adorned in a black taffeta dress and a velvet riding cap with a red peacock feather that matched George’s red scarf, she watched the proud regiment ride off. It was a splendid picture. This new biography of Elizabeth Bacon Custer relates the story of the famous and dashing couple's romance, reveals their life of adventure throughout the west during the days of the Indian Wars, and recounts the tragic end of the 7th cavalry and the aftermath for the wives. Libbie Custer was an unusual woman who followed her itinerant army husband's career to its end--but she was also an amazing master of propaganda who tried to recreate George Armstrong Custer's image after Little Bighorn. The author of many books about her own life (some of which are still in print) she was one of the most famous women of her time and remains a fascinating character in American history.

Author : Robert Charles Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781082060854
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Women of the Old West written by Robert Charles Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don't think that it would be out of place to note that when talking about the "Old West", the discussion is primarily about men - Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett, etc. And when women are mentioned, it usually doesn't go much further than Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley and Belle Starr. But just as the phrase "go West young man" was liberating for men, it was also liberating for women, too. While not necessarily typical, I've focused on 35 women in this study who almost all exhibited one overriding feature - independence. And in the 19th century, this was pretty unusual for the average woman.

Author : Lucia Albino Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643882581
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Winemakers written by Lucia Albino Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passion, courage, and talent of women making their way in a male-dominated field are captured through conversations with women winemakers from throughout California and wine regions of France, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. Their stories are told through the lens of four career pathways and the cultural histories of each wine region.

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493050974
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Time Girls of California written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century California. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the other hazards of their profession. Some dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, and some became infamous and even successful, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Working girls and madams like Bodie's famous Rosa May and the gambler Madame Moustache remain notorious celebrities in the annals of history, and Collins also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose roles in this illicit trade help shape our understanding of the American West.