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Legendary Ladies of Texas, Vol. 43 » (Second Edition)

Authors: Francis Edward Abernethy (Editor), Texas Foundation for Womens Resources
ISBN-13: 9780929398754, ISBN-10: 0929398750
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Date Published: August 1994
Edition: Second Edition

	Preface
	Introduction/Women in Texas History and Legend	3
	Maria de Agreda: The Lady in Blue	9
	Angelina	15
	Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas	21
	The Weeping Woman: La Llorona	31
	Belle Starr: The Bandit Queen of Dallas	39
	The Ghost of Chipita: The Crying Woman of San Patricio	51
	The Capitol's Lady	57
	Two Sixshooters and a Sunbonnet: The Story of Sally Skull	59
	Sophia Porter: Texas' Own Scarlett O'Hara	73
	Elise Waerenskjold: A Modern on the Prairie	79
	Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris	85
	Elisabet Ney: Texas' First Lady of Sculpture	95
	Mollie Bailey: Circus Entrepreneur	107
	Martha White McWhirter and the Belton Sanctificationists	115
	Aunt Dicy: Legendary Black Lady	123
	El Paso Madams	133
	Pardon Me, Governor Ferguson	145
	"Tell Them I Don't Smoke Cigars": The Story of Bonnie Parker	163
	Glamor Girl Called Electra	173
	The Babe	175
	Janis and the Austin Scene	185
	Legends in Their Own Time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders	195
	Honky Tonk Angels	203
	Woman as Victim in Modern Folklore	211
	Mrs. Bailey and the Bears	217
	Contributors	219
	Illustration credits	223
	Index	225