The Last Lady Stagecoach Bandit
In 1899, stagecoaches were disappearing from the West, but a few still ran between small towns like Globe and Florence in Arizona. Joe Boot and Pearl Hart decided to rob it: it would be one of the last robberies of its kind. If not for the fact that the boyishly dressed Pearl was female, the $400 dollar robbery might have gone unremarked. Instead, Pearl Hart became famous, if only briefly, recounting her crime in The Cosmopolitan, where she described giving each passenger back a dollar so they would be able to eat. It was her first and last armed robbery; after her release from prison in 1902 not much is known about her life with any certainty.
Charley Parkhurst, a California stagecoach driver, might also have faded from history but for the fact he was born Charlotte.
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