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 May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows