© 2006
ISBN 0977371107
218 pages,
trade paper with footnotes & historical photos.
PRICE $14.95 U.S. plus S/H
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Buckskin Bessie: Her Lost Letters is based on handwritten letters of Bessie Herberg Carter Blackwell that mysteriously appeared in the rubble of an estate sale.
Time will quickly melt away as the names, faces and secrets of this beautiful 1900s Wild West performer are revealed and you are ushered into another era and lifestyle. In her words, she had a "better stand in" than her fellow performers due to her 15-year love affair with Joe Miller, the owner of the 101 Wild West Show. Bessie was a performer with this show.
Bessie's choices led her down a strange path, but assumptions about her will be quieted and judgments will dissolve into questions that are yet to be answered. The book tells, through her own words, this woman's true character and strength.
Monica James says: "History is not someone's wild imagination or even another's faint memory, but rather the documented truth. Only rarely does it include the experiences of those that lived. This is history at its finest!"
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