Petticoat Prisoners of Old Wyoming
Larry K. Brown
What offenses did these women commit to cause them to be locked away for
the 
protection of the citizens? These twenty-three women, wearing frills, lace,
and their best bonnets, became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel in early Wyoming.
Some of these petticoat prisoners may have been a threat to society: Anna Bruce baked poison into her father’s plum pie; Eliza “Big Jack” Stewart shot a man in the neck at a dance. Others seem only to have been at the wrong place and time.
“…Petticoat Prisoners is a book that deserves
its place among the varied histories that fill the shelves of private collections
and public and academic libraries which offer the serious reader meaningful
works on Wyoming and the West."
•• Walter
Jones, Annals of Wyoming
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