Episode 258 - Belle Starr - The Story of the Bandit Queen
This week we head to Carthage Missouri to attend the birth of a Wild West :Legend, the Bandit Queen Belle Starr, We discuss her birth, her family, her brothers who all came to bad ends, including one who disappeared mysteriously. We discuss her family's ties to the South as the Civil War came and went and her family's move to Scylene, Texas where she drove one of the wagons. She idolized the James-Younger gang and learned how to shoot, eventually becoming a legendary outlaw and a planner of criminal activities, employing various criminals for various purposes, fencing their ill gotten gains…
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