Belle Starr: The Truth Behind The Wild West Legend

By Michael Wallis
This newly published book (2025) is a fascinating biography of the infamous female outlaw of the nineteenth century. Well known author Michael Wallis has done extensive research on her genealogy, childhood, growing up years and adult life in S. W. Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and a short time in California. She was born 1848 in Carthage MO and died in 1889 near Younger’s Bend, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.  Her life story is action packed, through Civil War years, through her “outlaw” career, the many characters she knew, her husbands, children, her mysterious death and her descendants. Many stories have been written about her. This book contains extensive Notes, Bibliography, and Illustration Index.  It also contains new information that Mr Wallis has found about Belle Starr. Hardback, w/dustcover, 446 pages.
Also available at Talbot Library & Museum Bookstore, 500 So. Colcord Ave. Colcord, OK.