Talk:Belle Starr

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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 Mistreatment or molesting? 3 False Information? 4 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

WikiProject Biography Assessment

Nearly a B.

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 07:24, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mistreatment or molesting?

As there are no citations for "some sources" here, and there is a reference to her beating her son, Ed for mistreating her horse, I've substituted this since it has a reference. Otherwise if there are citations for the original, please include them. Julia Rossi 05:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] False Information?

Hi all. I am reading That's not in my American History Book by Thomas Ayres. He a has a segment in that book on Belle Starr that describes her as a mentally deranged woman, who served years on the streets of Dallas as a prostitute. This article seems to fit the bill of the "cowboy legends" that are interesting but not true. I would generally trust a published book more than Wikipedia, but still who knows? I might suggest cleaning up this article from making her seem less like a beautiful heroine, but I guess it is more upo to you guys to decide. If you are interested in the book, the ISBN # is 1-58979-107-X Thanks, 69.81.178.253 18:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Ronald W. Lackman, author of Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film (1997) seems to consider the Glenn Shirley book listed in the article as the most authoritative. The article needs more references from that, and less from legend. Also, while Starr did sleep around, she made her money from horse thieving and cattle rustling her neighbors. --Yamara ✉ 05:52, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 03:31, 10 November 2007 (UTC)