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Explains the common myths and legends of Belle Starr's life and discusses their authenticity. Carries a bibliography for even more reading. Carries a table of articles. "Belle Starr, Belle Starr, tell me where you have absent Since old Oklahoma's sandhills you performed roam? Could it be Heaven's wide roads that you're tying your reins Or singlefooting anywhere below? Eight lovers they state combed your waving dark scalp Eight men understood the feel of your dark velvet stomach Eight men observed the looks of your tan leather skirt Eight men observed the bark of the guns that you wore." (Woody Guthrie, "Belle Starr") Space may be the ultimate frontier, but no frontier has ever before captured the American creativity like the Wild Western world, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the Western world was settled. A continuous fixture in American pop culture, the 19th-century American West continues to be vividly and bright colored portrayed not simply as a place but as circumstances of brain. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Western world series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of America's most well-known frontier numbers in enough time it takes to complete a commute while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. America has always preferred heroes who weren't clean trim, a casual ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering nature that defined the nation in previous decades. The early 19th century observed the glorification of frontier folk heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, and following the Civil War the outlaws of the Western world were popular than the marshals. Outlaws like Jesse Wayne and Billy the Kid robbed and fought their way into dime novels, but one of the most notorious and unique outlaws of them all was Myra Maybelle Shirley, a Southern woman who understood her way around horses and guns.
