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	Hearts West: True Stories Of Mail-Order Brides On The Frontier 3.53 avg rating — 939 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West 3.63 avg rating — 590 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West 3.68 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency 3.60 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths And Burials Of The Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, And Celebrated Lawmen 3.68 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Object: Matrimony: The Risky Business Of Mail-Order Matchmaking On The Western Frontier 3.36 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition 3.74 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday 3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne 3.98 avg rating — 88 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death Row All Stars by Chris Enss (Goodreads Author), Howard Kazanjian 3.28 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The main thoroughfare of Sweetwater, Texas, was so crowded with hunters, trappers, wagons, teams of horses, and soldiers that passing streams of people jostled each other, and some walked shoulder to shoulder.* The air was charged with excitement. Rum Read more of this blog post »

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“We never did hang the wrong one but once or twice, and them fellers needed to be hung anyhow jes' on general principles."
-A NAMELESS JUDGE IN THE OLD WEST”
― Chris Enss, Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen

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“A cemetery is a history of people -a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because crcrv life is worth loving and rc nrcnrbcrirli-alm111s. "
- WILLIAM GLADSTONE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, 1890”
― Chris Enss, Tales Behind the Tombstones: The Deaths and Burials of the Old West's Most Nefarious Outlaws, Notorious Women, and Celebrated Lawmen

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“There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us. That it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.”
― Chris Enss, Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West

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