Belle Starr, aka:  the “Outlaw Queen” (1848-1889) - Born Myra Maybelle Shirley on February 5, 1848, on a farm near Carthage, Missouri. When she was still a young girl, the entire area would become embroiled in the bloody Kansas-Missouri border war. By the time she was a teenager, she had hooked up with the likes of Younger brothers and Jesse James. She, herself, became a horse thief, outlaw and part-time prostitute, and became the first woman to be tried for a serious crime by Judge Isaac Parker. She was sentenced to five months in prison for horse theft. In 1889 she was shot in the back and killed by an unknown assailant. Belle was buried at her cabin southwest of Porum, Oklahoma near the Eufuala Dam in Muskogee County. Her daughter Pearl had the following inscription engraved to her tombstone:

"Shed not for her the bitter tear,
Nor give the heart to vain regret,
'Tis but the casket that lies here,
The gem that fills it sparkles yet."