Wicked Women

Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West

By: Chris Enss

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women offers a glimpse into the Western women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. During the late 1800s, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boomtowns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi when they followed fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory. Prostitutes and female gamblers hoped to capitalize on the vices of the intrepid pioneers. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, Wicked Women includes famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate as well as lesser known characters.

©2015 Chris Enss (P)2015 Tantor

Worth a Listen

More information on a little researched topic than I have ever read before. Keeps your interest easily.

Brave Women of the West

I loved this book. It was very well performed and was very entertaining. The book basically is several short venuettes of different women known in the West from about 1870 until 1920. Several are orphans or young women with no education; they are all smart, resilient, and creative. It left me wondering “how would I survive given the same circumstances.” It would be a great read for women’s’ studies. Read it; you won’t be disappointed!

More

I wish there had more: more information about the women, more women to include in the book. I understand that there is only so much info available about these women and that women like the ones in the book were small in numbers. At the end of the book I was left wanting more

Entertaining and very interesting

Narrator was easy to listen to, and the stories were very interesting. It had us looking up old history on some of the locations and people mentioned.

A bunch of short stories

I listened to the book over the course of a couple of days - it's more a bunch of short stories than anything else. Most of the stories are probably the length of something you'd read in a magazine for the most part. Overall I found it interesting, but there's not much depth for most of the people involved - which is probably good since I doubt much is known for most of them. No made up dialogue is a huge plus. The reader did a good, professional job. I'd recommend if you're just looking for a light, easy overview.