With gripping details, Chris Enss’s portrayals in Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Midwest revisits times and circumstances that landed Midwestern women in the bad girl category. One loved fast horses: riding as a young man, Flora Mundis, alias Tom King, was a horse thief in the 1890s in Oklahoma Territory. Elizabeth Reed dispatched husbands with poisons. Scam artists Fannie and Jennie Freeman, a mother-daughter combo, victimized railroad and trolley operators from Boston to C
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