FELONIOUS FEMALES
Jul 24, 2018
3 minutes
In R. Michael Wilson’s article “Felonious Female Nevadans” [August 2017]. he writes on P. 49, “In the roughly seven-decade history of the Wild West authorities in the Western states and territories executed just two women.” That number seems unrealistically low. I can’t speak for all the other states/territories that comprise the West, but Dallas County, Texas, executed Jane Elkins on May 27, 1853. Jane was black, and her victim, a Mrs. Wisdom, wife
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