woman robbing stagecoach

[cbutchee]

If you can't get rich, might as well settle for fame.  And that's just what this woman got when she hammed it up for Arizona jail photographers after she got busted for robbing a stagecoach. Give us her name

[Zen]

Pearl Hart

Even though it had just been a third-rate stagecoach robbery, unspectacular even by the criminal standards of the day, the Arizona newspapers had a feeding frenzy over the case. Contrary to what has been seen in latter-day western movies, there simply weren't very many female bandits in America. The national press soon jumped on the bandwagon, and reporters were clamoring for interviews with the suddenly famous female stagecoach robber. Even the New York women's magazine Cosmopolitan (then in its infancy, and much different than it is today) sought out an interview. Since Pearl remains a very prominent figure in pulp western magazines to this day, it can be safely said that the public's fascination with her has never died