Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend

by Michael Wallis

In the annals of legendary Wild West desperados, 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 of scores of high-profile portraits to brand Starr as a villain. Now, celebrated historian Michael Wallis parses over a century of mythmaking to reveal the woman behind the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631494775
• ISBN13: 9781631494772
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 544 Pages