Celebrated author Michael Wallis parses over a century of mythmaking to reveal the woman behind the renegade legend. Of Belle Starr, he states, “Her life was so wrapped up in lies and innuendo that I wanted to unwind it and find the true story.
She’s portrayed either as a wild gang leader or as a groupie to outlaws like Jesse James. She was neither. She, in truth, was a strong, independent woman. A…