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

April 2010
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- On the Trading Post Trail
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- John Wayne’s Six-Gun Clone
- Digging Up San Jacinto
- A Tall Order?
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- The Cheesy Old West
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