The have been tall tales told about Belle Starr and Flora Quick robbing trains and stagecoaches but far as I know Pearl Hart was the only woman to hold up a stagecoach in Arizona in 1899. She and her boyfriend Joe Boot robbed the Florence-Globe stage. The two amateur stage robbers were quickly apprehended. She was sentenced to five years in the Yuma Territorial Prison but released after two.
Laura Bullion aka “Della Rose” rode with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch and was romantically involve
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