Belle Starr by Speer Morgan (1979, Hardcover)

Belle Starr
by Speer Morgan
Publisher:  Little, Brown and Company
Copyright 1979
FIRST EDITION
Second Printing

Certain facts about Belle Starr are known and recorded.  When she was young the outlaw Cole Younger seduced her, got her pregnant, and abandoned her.  Dressing in plumes and Stetson, she took on the role of a fallen woman, theatrically and publicly.  Yet in the manner of all true rebels, she took on part of the role and rejected part, evolving an unheard-of style of living that sparked the imagination of generations of people.  In the borderland of Arkansas and Oklahoma stories are still told about her, stories not far removed from people who knew her.  Out of these local accounts, Speer Morgan spins an uncommon tale of an uncommon woman.

Glimpses:  Ambushed by a hostile band of Indians, Belle rips off her shirt and, howling the Cherokee death-gobble, marches on them alone.  Negotiates masterfully with a sophisticated Indian chief trying to stop the land rushes.  Hoodwinks a sheriff.  Burns up the brothel in which her daughter works.  Defies an old lover and bewilders a new one.  Robs a bank.  Leads a gun battle.  Copes with toothaches, migraines, menstrual pains, and the corrosive sense of her age and ugliness, as well as the faint-heartedness of hired guns, and a raging storm -- all the while cutting a telegraph line and firing a railroad bridge.  She comforts a dying cowboy, rallies an old widow, jeers at a baseball game, dominates a men's bar, broods on her amorous past, rants, daydreams, swigs drink and dope -- and laughs at the world and herself.

This novel arises from a sophisticated artist's obsession with a primitive -- but not simple -- woman, and from a sensitive mordern man's understanding of women in male roles, confronting men and leading them, but torn by raging inner conflicts.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the short title page.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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