|
Pearl Hart
This image available for
photographic prints and downloads
HERE!
Born as Pearl Taylor of French descent in
Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, this petite and attractive young girl would
grow up to become one of the only female stagecoach robbers in the
American West. After marrying a seductive gambler when she was
just 17, the pair attended the Columbian Exposition in
Chicago,
Illinois
in 1893 where Pearl became enamored
of the
Old
West
when she attended several
Wild
West type shows. She soon left her husband, heading through
Colorado
and finally to
Arizona,
where she hooked up with a miner named
Joe Boot. Among
other smaller petty crimes, the pair robbed a stagecoach between
Florence and Globe,
Arizona
on May 30, 1899. Taking about $450 and a revolver, they were soon
apprehended and Hart spent two
years in the Yuma Territorial Prison. Though her life of crime was
short-lived, she became a legend known as the "lady bandit." After
being released she went to Kansas City and the rest of her life is
blurred in history.
Return to
Outlaws
Return to the
Old
West
Return to
Vintage Photographs
|
|
