Wild West Canadians: The Lady Bandit — Pearl Hart

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Episode 198: If you’ve had any interest in the Wild West, you’ve no doubt heard of a many of the storied gunmen and bandits from the era like Butch Cassidy, Jesse James and Billy the Kid. You probably also think of the United States, but Canada has its own legends and colourful characters from the era on both sides of the border. For example, legendary gunslinger and lawman, Bat Masterson, was was born in Henryville, Quebec. Sometimes the outlaws were women, like one notorious Canadian-born, lady bandit and the subject of this episode, whose most famous alias was Pearl Hart. After a rough life with criminal exploits that started during her troubled childhood, Pearl got herself into big trouble in Arizona in 1899 and was finally taken into custody after robbing a stage coach. Sources: Pearl Hart - Wikipedia Pearl Hart – Lady Bandit of Arizona – Legends of America Bandit Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach - HISTORY The life and times of Pearl Hart, Ontario’s cigar-smoking, Wild West superstar | The Star Pearl Hart: The Amazing Life of The Bandit Queen Female bandit Pearl Hart: “I shall not be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making” The wild life and death of Old West feminist bandit Pearl Hart Pearl Hart - ‘Bandit Queen’ of the Old West - WednesdaysWomen Pearl Hart, the Last Lady Outlaw - HeadStuff Wild Women of the Wild West: Pearl Hart ~ Lady Bandit of Arizona Listen to Wildcat Audiobook by John Boessenecker The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters - Leon Claire Metz - Google Books The Cosmopolitan — Volume 27 — Google Play Books Pearl Hart: Smooth-talking card shark led Pearl’s slide to perdition | Local news | tucson.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:29.8	If you've had any interest in the Wild West, you've no doubt heard of many of the storied
2:47.9	gunmen and bandits from the era like Buccacity, Jesse James and Billy the Kid. You probably also
2:54.7	think of the United States, but Canada has its own legends and colorful characters from the era
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