Oklahoma Bad Girls: Interesting Gals and Pals of the Gilded Age

by Marilyn A. Hudson

The 1890's, the Gilded Age, in Oklahoma saw the twin territories rife with gangs, crooks, thieves, and outlaws of every stripe. The fairer sex was represented in this mix, sometimes truthfully and sometimes drawn from the whole cloth of overactive and imaginative newspaper editors, politicians and lawmen. Meet a variety of women whose stories are often absent or distorted in the history books. Introduced will be such people as Cattle Annie, Little Britches, 'Tom King' aka Flo Quick, Jessie Findlay, Eugenia Moore, and others.

130 pages, Paperback

Published September 15, 2017

About the author

With a love of story, intrigued by history, and always asking questions...Marilyn A. Hudson combines all of her skills to craft works rich in history, human emotion, and mystery.

Her professional experiences include being a Director of Library Services in a university and prior, she served as public services librarian for the Metropolitan Library System and as a library media specialist for Norman Public Schools. Listed in the 1997 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, she was the 2002 recipient of the OLA Outstanding New Librarian Award, and member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Golden Key, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Her general research interests are in history, especially social, religious, and church history; women’s studies; mythology, folklore and storytelling.


Hudson was lead writer and editor of the book, One Night Club and A Mule Barn: The First 60 Years of Southwestern Christian University and authored, Those Pesky Verses of Paul: Examining Women in the New Testament, Elephant Hips are Expensive, The Bones of Summer, The Mound, When Death Rode the Rails, Noel Brooks, and others. She received a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.

Her most recent work is the launching of a series featuring a steam punk slueth named "Madame Delaine."