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'''Pearl Taylor''' ([[1871]]-[[1956]]), better known as '''Pearl Hart''', was a [[List of cowboys and cowgirls|cowgirl]] who was a native of [[Lindsay]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. She was of [[France|French]]
As a youngster, Pearl was attracted to older men, and she had a number of relationships with [[Alcohol|alcoholics]] and other men of infamous status. After attending boarding school, she met a man at the age of sixteen and became impregnated. She endured [[Domestic violence|abuse]] by this man and returned to her mother's home with her new baby.
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By [[1893]], she arrived at [[Chicago, Illinois]], where she saw [[Annie Oakley]] perform at a card show. This would turn out to be a life changing experience for Pearl, as she became inspired by Oakley. She also attended the [[World's Fair]] [[Woman|women]]'s pavilion and listened to speeches by [[Julia Ward Howe]], among others.
Inspired by the experience of seeing women demonstrating some social power, she boarded a [[train]] to [[Trinidad, Colorado]]. In Trinidad, she became a popular saloon [[List of singers|singer]]. It was rumored by the press that she practiced [[prostitution]] as a way to make a living while in Trinidad, but it has been argued that the press spread such rumors to embellish her legend; nevertheless, Pearl never denied nor admitted to being a prostitute; she even went as far as declaring to [[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan magazine]] that she was "21, good looking, and ready for anything that might come".
Reunited in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] with her husband, Pearl endured more
Joe Boot had long been planning to rob a train, and Pearl felt hard pressed by the fact that her mother was sick, and her children's future was bleak at the time. After much planning, the heist finally took place, on [[May 30]], [[1899]]. Hart and Boot held three men at gun point, stealing 430 [[US dollar|dollars]] and a [[revolver]].
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On [[June 4]] she and Boot were arrested outside of [[Benson, Arizona]]. After her stay at the Florence jail, she would be transferred to a jail in [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], from where she became an advocate of women's rights and, later on, she escaped. [[Josephine Brawley Hughes]], another women's rights advocate, became a supporter of Pearl, through her columns at "[[The Arizona Daily Star]]".
Pearl Hart had been a contributor
Pearl Hart ultimately received a sentence of five years in jail, despite trying to convince the jury that she was temporarily insane during the robbery because of a supposed desire to see her mother and children and because of her mother's sickness. She was sent to a jail in [[Yuma, Arizona|Yuma]].
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While at Yuma, she also became addicted to [[morphine]] and became fodder of the tabloid newspapers of the day. This led [[Paul Hull]], an editor in chief of another leading Arizona newspaper of the time, to feel sympathy for her and to plead with these type of newspapers to leave her alone.
After spending the five years in the Yuma jail, she lived a quieter and much more private
Pearl Hart passed away in 1956, after spending most of her life as a free citizen gardening and writing in a diary.
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