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Minnesota's notorious Nellie King : wild woman of the closed frontier / Jerry Kuntz.

Title
Minnesota's notorious Nellie King : wild woman of the closed frontier / Jerry Kuntz.
Author
Kuntz, Jerry,
Publication
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.

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Description
141 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"The story of Nellie King, a woman who hoodwinked and swindled the residents of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin in the late 1800s with her fetching appearance, eccentric behavior and criminal misdeeds"--
Subject
  • King, Nellie
  • Swindlers and swindling > Minnesota > Biography
  • Female offenders > Minnesota > Biography
  • Women adventurers > Minnesota > Biography
  • TRUE CRIME / General
  • Minnesota > History > 19th century
  • Minnesota > Biography
  • West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890
  • West (U.S.) > History > 1890-1945
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Nellie the Female Detective -- Nellie and the Colossal Fraud -- Nellie and the Demimonde -- Nellie the Adventuress -- Nellie the Outlaw -- Nellie's Nine Lives -- Nellie's Family -- Nellie and the Greatest Humbug -- Nellie, the Denver Doll -- Nellie and the Wizard -- Nellie Revealed -- Nellie, the Strangest Heart.
ISBN
  • 9781626192072 (paperback)
  • 1626192073 (paperback)
LCCN
^^2013034556
OCLC
855607242
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library