Re: Dorthea (Dolly)(Reeves) Starr 1868 AR
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Dorthea (Dolly)(Reeves) Starr 1868 AR
Treva Treesh 9/16/08
Hi, this was part of an interview with an aunt of mine in 1937, Events occurredin Muskogee, OK. Thought you might find in interesting.
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But with all the holdups and bank robberies, there was never a store nor a house robbed,
nor was a woman evei molested. I never locked my door and never was the least bit
afraid.
My sister worked for the Muskogee paper. She was the first woman in Muskogee to
work for the paper and because it was a novelty passersbyoften stopped at the front
window wheie ihe worked and watched her. One day Belle Starr, the notorious woman
outlaw, rode up to the window and called to my sister. "Where's Frank Hubbard?" My
sister repiied that he wasn't there at ihe time and Belie said, "It's a goo I,m going to kill him." She had had a gudge againgt him for something he had printed
about her. She wore a kneeJength riding skirt and had her hair in two long braids with a
snake's rattle in the end of each braid.
Once at the Muskogee fair apnze of a fine saddle was offered for the most graceful
woman rider. Ther6 were three women who entered the competition; a fullblood
Cherokee, a white woman of some prominence in Muskogee, and Belle Starr's daughter.
Belle's daughter rode magnificently, but, because of the prominence of the white woman,
the judges awarded her the saddle, whereupon the spectators set up such a clamor for
Belie's-daughter that the judges *er" compelled to change their decision and give her the
saddle.