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Eva Dugan: The Only Woman Hanged in Arizona

by | Apr 16, 2019 | True West Blog

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Twenty-year-old Eva Dugan took the alias Claw-Finger Kitty while she was working as a prostitute during the Alaska Gold Rush and some thirty years later she would become famous as the only woman Arizona history to be legally hanged. During her adventuresome life Eva married five times and one way or another all of them went missing. She settled in Pima County in southern Arizona where in 1926 she went to


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