Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr (February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889), better known as Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw.
Belle associated with the James–Younger Gang and other outlaws. She was convicted of horse theft in 1883. She was fatally shot in 1889 in a case that is still officially unsolved. Her story was popularized by Richard K. Fox—editor and publisher of the National Police Gazette—and she later became a popular character in television and movies.
Somewhere near Stigler in Eastern Oklahoma, the grave lies past a plum thicket, beyond an alfalfa patch, through a grassy field fringed with sycamores and blackberry vines, to a forgotten and scrub-tangled knoll above a river. The inscription was written by her daughter, Pearl, and reads:
Hooker, OK is in far NW Oklahoma. Not eastern OK. I KNOW this because I was raised in western Oklahoma and my uncle founded the Dewey County Historical Society. His father my great granddad was friends with the US Marshal at that time I was raised on first hand accounts of the Doolans, Dalton’s, Red Buck, The Starr’s, etc.
Sean Gore
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