Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Cabinet Card Photograph of eight young women in formal wear. The reverse states, “Girls that boarded at alice Owens in the school year 1893 & 4 ..” It then lists the young women including Lida May Hart and Magnolia Hart (center of image). Pearl Hart ( 1876-1955; please note that Wikipedia incorrectly posts 1871 as birth year), Folk Figure, Old West Outlaw. Eloping at the age of 17 to a gambler named Hart, Pearl was on the fast track to outlaw fame. Pearl would leave her abusive husband numerous times only to reconcile and return and it the midst of all this give birth to two children, Little Joe and Emma. In 1893, the couple traveled to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She left Hart and went West. By 1899, she had hooked up with a miner named Joe Boot. By May of that same year, the two of them decided to rob the Globe to Florence stagecoach near the settlement of Troy and Kane Springs Canyon. Pearl cut her hair, dressed in men’s clothing, and was armed with a .38 revolver. Boot held a gun on the victims while Pearl stole two firearms and money. They gave each passenger a $1.00 for food, took the driver’s gun and fled south towards Benson. They worked their way up the San Pedro River hoping to get far away from the crime. The stagecoach driver unhitched a horse, road to town and alerted the sheriff, W. E. “Bill” Truman. Taken to the Globe jail, Hart played up her part as a lady bandit, giving autographs and entertaining those who just wanted to get a glimpse of the "Bandit Queen.”
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