1. Pearl Hart committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender.
14 Facts About Pearl Hart
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Pearl Hart's parents were both religious and affluent, and these factors provided their daughter with the best available education.
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Pearl Hart in turn developed a fascination with the cowboy lifestyle while watching Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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About this time Pearl Hart attested to receiving a message asking her to return home to her seriously ill mother.
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Pearl Hart had cut her hair short and dressed in men's clothing.
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One article in Cosmopolitan said Pearl Hart was "just the opposite of what would be expected of a woman stage robber," though, "when angry or determined, hard lines show about her eyes and mouth".
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The attention Pearl Hart had received in jail continued once she was imprisoned.
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Pearl Hart, in turn, used her position as the only female at an all-male facility to her advantage, playing admiring guards and prison trusties off of each other in an effort to improve her situation.
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Pearl Hart had a short-lived show where she re-enacted her crime and then spoke about the horrors of Yuma Territorial Prison.
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In 1904, Pearl Hart was running a cigar store in Kansas City when she was arrested for receiving stolen property.
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The play Lady with a Gun and the musical The Legend of Pearl Hart are based upon Hart's story.
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In CBBC's Horrible Histories, Pearl Hart is played by Martha Howe-Douglas.
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Pearl Hart is portrayed as a "real Wild West legend" compared to the fictionalised antics of Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp.
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The foregoing account of Pearl Hart is claimed to be largely fictional.