I forgot to tell you all something…..as much as I babble you’d think I’d have remembered–but hey—WE GOT 1,000 (now 1,015) SUBSRIBERS SIGNED UP LAST SUNDAY—I was worried that nobody would even, ever read this….Pretty good as only taking subscriptions since June this year—THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING SO. Pictures today are from Winter Park ‘s Hidden Garden Courtyard https://www.facebook.com/HiddenGardenCourtyard which my BFF Alicia Mc and I wandered around on our Friday adventure. Oh and I’m still working on my trip to England which I will feature on my BLOG while I’m doing it so you’ll get daily pictures etc. Yesterday working on York: http://www.visityork.org/, Can’t forget my HONORABLE MENTION: MODERNISM MUSEUM MT. DORA www.ModernismMuseum.org
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex, Jerry Rubin
Check out this on some deleted OUTLANDER scenes surfacing on the net:
AS we continue on our view of women I thought we might try THE INFAMOUS
This Belle Star….she was a major character in lots of westerns and yes she was real but how real?
According to History.com: Born
Myra Belle Shirley on a small farm
near Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, she received an
education in the classics and became a competent pianist. Not exactly what you’d expect from the hard drinking, hard living woman of the old West that we have seen on screen and in books.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/belle-starr-murdered-in-oklahoma While her
older brother “Bud taught her to
use guns and ride horses, and it is believed that she joined him—unofficially—as
he tried to subvert the Union’s efforts in Missouri. (family
supported the Confederacy.) ”
http://www.biography.com/people/belle-starr-9492533#synopsis Bud who
rode with Quantrill, was surrounded and killed trying to escape from Union forces in June 1864. Soon after this the
family moved to Texas.with Blue Duck one of her lovers.
In Texas she
married her first husband (whom she knew from Missouri) James C. “
Jim” Reed They were married on November 1, 1866. Reed who was
“riding” with the Younger Brother’s lived with his wife at the family home between his criminal activities. But by 1871 the couple had
returned to Missouri where they lived with his family and their
two children (Pearl and Ed). h
ttp://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Belle_Starr.aspx
She never married again but took lovers and: “She survived all but two of these men.”
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=975 She was living near the Canadan River in Indian territory when she was shot from behind with a shot gun by someone laying in ambush. Though there were many suspect the crime still remains unsolved (“A neighbor, Edgar J. Watson
[killed in 1910, was tried for her murder, but was acquitted.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Belle_Starr ) She lived about an hour after her injury dying in her cabin just 2 days short of turning 41.
“Belle says she anticipates no trouble in establishing her innocence in the cases against her, but thinks it terribly annoying to have to spend her time and money coming down here to court five and six times a year.” 
FORT SMITH, Ark., May 30, 1886
She rests still today: Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma: ” “Queen of the Bandits,” buried in a grave along a trail off the highway “- http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/43540#sthash.gUNS3BPS.dpuf
Shed not for her the bitter tear Nor give the heart to vain regret Tis but the casket that lies here The gem that filled it sparkles yet. Belle Starr
Her son Ed, was arrested and put in prison for horse theft and receiving stolen property in 1889. while her daughter Rosie (better known as Pearl Starr) became a prostitute to raise funds for his release. She seems to have taken after her mom as she obtained it in 1893. Ed became a police officer killed in line of duty 1896
“She actually didn’t become famous until: “Bella Starr, The Bandit Queen, or The Female Jesse James. A Full and Authentic History of the Dashing Female Highwayman, with Copious Extracts from Her Journal. Handsomely and Profusely Illustrated.The book was first published in 1889, the same year she was mysteriously murdered. Creative license added more romance to Belle Starr’s past and extended to her story. Much of it was a complete fabrication, including invented texts from “her journal …..”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/belle-starr-the-bandit-queen
Chauncey Depew quotes
AND THUS I PRESENTS A WOMAN WHO WAS BROUGHT UP TO BE GOOD AND IN THE END WAS BAD WHICH WAS PROBABLY BETTER THAN BEING GOOD AND WEARING PEARLS—INFAMOUSNESS HAS ITS OWN REWARDS. The Dragon Lair Diva.
CLAMITY JANE
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men’s clothes. Calamity Jane
Oscar Wilde quotes
Belle Starr
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
Belle Starr, Belle Starr, tell me where you have gone
Since old Oklahoma’s sandhills you did roam?
Is it Heaven’s wide streets that you’re tying your reins
Or singlefooting somewhere below?
