A few months ago a friend up in Yukon Territory wrote asking for some information on a lady of the evening who resided in the red light district of Dawson City and was later hanged in Arizona for murder. She called herself “Claw-Fingered Kitty.”
My friend was wondering who she really was, her real name and any information I could find on her.
The detective work was pretty easy since only one woman in Arizona was ever legally hanged for murder, Miss Eva Dugan.
Turns out as a young

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus