“I am A Friend to any Brave and Gallant Outlaw”

Belle Starr said that, the “bandit queen” who liked her men, her moonshine and her stolen horses. There's a part of her legend that speaks of independence and plain old guts, but another part that underscores her early reputation as a “spoiled rich girl” who never thought the rules applied to her. She was born Myra Belle Shirley. She came from a good family and had a rich-girl's education, but lived most of her life on the spoils of crime. History traces her outlaw days to 1866 when she