Mountain Charley : Or the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire

Trade Paperback. Biography. Called "the skirt who wore men's clothes, " Mountain Charley was a part of the wild West in the mid-nineteenth century. Married at twelve, widowed at fifteen, she donned male clothing in order to make an honest living---as riverboatman, railroad brakeman, miner, rancher, Indian trader, businessman, and bartender---and to track down her husband's murderer.