
370 - Necessary Yelling
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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What's Up With Pearl Hart?
In 1887, Pearl and her sister had West for the first time to Chicago on a train car dressed in men's clothing. They get in trouble with the law but also get a lot of attention for their whole pretty girls dressed as boys thing because people figure them out. And from this moment forward, Pearl is always trying her best to head West. That's her goal. In the 1890s, she's doing sex work in Buffalo, New York, in part because there are so few jobs for women at the time. At the turn of the century, according to a quote pulled from the main source that I used, Wildcat, the book Wildcat, Buffalo was considered one of
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