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The woman who some believe might have been Pearl Hart passed away on Decemas the wife of George Calvin Bywater. The last theories about Pearl HartвЂ™s whereabouts come from some old time Arizona pioneers who believe that she settled down as a ranchers wife on a homestead outside Globe, not far from Cane Springs and the site of the stagecoach robbery which provided her moment of celebrity infamy. вЂњThanks for showing me where I stayed for awhile. There was even one anecdote about a tour guide leading a group through the old Pima County Jail when at the end of the tour a little old lady came up and confessed. There were rumors that she ran a gang of pickpockets in Kansas City, while others place her in this fine metropolis but believe she only ran a cigar store while there. Others state that she may have briefly appeared in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Some claim that she appeared on the vaudeville stage in a play about her exploits as the lady bandit in a show bankrolled by William Randolph Hearst. This is also untrue, as Jane Kirkham was killed when robbing a stagecoach along the road between Leadville and Buena Vista, Colorado on March 7, 1879.ДЄfter her release from prison Pearl Hart disappears from certainty in the historical record. Hart is also frequently credited as being the only woman to ever hold up a stagecoach.

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During the hold-up, the bandit, Ben Kuhl, killed the driver and made off with more than $3,000 in gold coins. Though she is often credited with being the last person to ever rob a stagecoach, this is untrue as the last actual stage robbery took place on December 5, 1916, near Jarbridge, Nevada. Most often, however she is credited with having married a rancher in Dripping Springs, Arizona, where she lived out the last days of her life going by the name of Pearl Bywater and died in 1956. Others say that she was living in San Francisco, California when she died in 1952. Some reports say that she died in Kansas City where she operated a cigar store in 1925. The December 1902 pardon was made on the condition that Hart leave the territory, a condition she quickly fulfilled.ДЄs to what happened to Pearl Hart in the end, it remains unknown. At the time, the outlaw was the only female at the Yuma Territorial Prison and her presence was causing disruptions as guards and other prisoners vied for her attentions. Alexander Brodie helped arrange the pardon of Pearl Hart on moral grounds. She is acknowledged as the only known female stagecoach robber in Arizona's history, earning her the nicknames of вЂњBandit QueenвЂќ or вЂњLady BanditвЂќ. Many details of Hart's life are uncertain, with available reports being varied and often contradictory. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender. During her sentencing, it is reported Pearl said, вЂњI shall not consent to be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making.вЂќ Pearl вЂњBandit QueenвЂќ (Taylor) Hart was a folk figure and outlaw of the American old West.

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