Cabinet Card Smith Bros. Halstead Kansas
Circa 1880s
Height 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) Width 4.25 inches (10.75 cm)
Provenance: George Jackson, Texas
Herb Peck, Texas
Myra Maybelle Shirley began her life quietly enough on a Missouri farm. By her death in 1889, she was known as Belle Starr, one of the West's most notorious figures, a consort to "boot leggers, stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves, and outlaws,"Burton Rascoe writes in his 1941 book Belle Starr; The Bandit Queen."
Dime novels would immortalize Starr and Hollywood actress Gene Tierney would portray her in the 1941 movie. Here she is depicted with her young husband and her famous outfit complete with her iconic hat and gun slinger outfit. Without a doubt one of the most beautiful and iconic images known of her.
Cabinet Card Smith Bros. Halstead Kansas
Circa 1880s
Height 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) Width 4.25 inches (10.75 cm)
Provenance: George Jackson, Texas
Herb Peck, Texas
Myra Maybelle Shirley began her life quietly enough on a Missouri farm. By her death in 1889, she was known as Belle Starr, one of the West's most notorious figures, a consort to "boot leggers, stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves, and outlaws,"Burton Rascoe writes in his 1941 book Belle Starr; The Bandit Queen."
Dime novels would immortalize Starr and Hollywood actress Gene Tierney would portray her in the 1941 movie. Here she is depicted with her young husband and her famous outfit complete with her iconic hat and gun slinger outfit. Without a doubt one of the most beautiful and iconic images known of her.
