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    Lottie Deno - Mysterious Hell Cat of the West
    Lottie Deno - Mysterious Hell Cat of the West
    Lottie Deno - Mysterious Hell Cat of the West
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    Lottie Deno - Mysterious Hell Cat of the West

    By G.R. Williamson

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    One of the most mysterious of the petticoat dealers that roamed the Old West was the voluptuous Lottie Deno.

    She was a dazzling beauty, wore the finest clothes, and conducted herself as a refined Southern belle. Yet, she told no one her real name; "Lottie Deno" was a nickname given to her by other gamblers. She raked in big winnings night after nights—she traveled with a leather-bound trunk that was stuffed with cash.

    Using all of her feminine wiles, she orchestrated the killing of an ex- paramour, she stood toe to toe in a fight with "Big Nose" Kate over Doc Holliday, and she coolly counted her winnings at a table where two of the players blazed away with pistols—killing both men.

    This then, is her incredibly true story, Lottie Deno – Mysterious Hell Cat of the West.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndian Head Publishing
    Release dateOct 15, 2018
    ISBN9781386002109
    Lottie Deno - Mysterious Hell Cat of the West
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    G.R. Williamson

    G.R. Williamson lives in Kerrville, Texas, with his wife and trusty chihuahua Shooter. He spent his early years living in Crystal City, Texas, which is located twenty miles west of King Fisher's ranch in Dimmitt County. As a Boy Scout, he hunted for arrowheads on the land that once belonged to King Fisher, and he fished in the alligator waters of Espantosa Lake. He has written many articles on Texas historical figures and events in Texas history. In addition, he has penned several western film screenplays that make their way to California from time to time. Currently he is at work on two nonfiction books-one on the last old-time Texas bank and train robber and the other on frontier gambling.

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      Lottie Deno - Mysterious Hell Cat of the West - G.R. Williamson

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      While most women working in saloons were entertainers, dancing partners, percentage girls, or outright prostitutes, a select few were bartenders or saloon owners. An even smaller number were gamblers working as dealers at faro, monte, or twenty-one tables

      Granted, most of these enterprising women had to occasionally resort to the other forms of female vice to recover from an extended run of bad luck. Nevertheless, these women were masters at their craft and at reading male psychology.

      Often dressing in low-cut gowns and using suggestive double entendre, their tables usually drew a crowd. In some ways men seem to enjoy losing to a beautiful maven, especially if she managed to flatter them in the process.

      Like their male counterparts, the women dealers had bad runs of luck - most frequently with their bed partners. Only a very few lived to be wealthy retired gamblers and members of respectable social circles.

      The term, Hellcats was a common term used in the Old West, stemming from the use of gambling hells, that was used to describe what we know as gambling halls. With the notoriety of the female dealers, it was only natural for the newspapers of the day to refer to them as hellcats – remember salacious sells.

      Introduction

      In 1957, J. Marvin Hunter, wrote a book on Lottie Deno, entitled, The Story of Lottie Deno: Her Life and Times; The Story of The Mysterious Aristocrat Who Became A Lady Gambler and Female Dared (full title, exactly how it was written.) He died before the book was published by his sons in 1959.

      In reading the book, he describes visiting with the elderly Lottie Deno in Deming, New Mexico, where he lived as a young newspaper man. The woman was known in the community as Charlotte Thurmond. She was a well-thought of matronly woman who had a benevolent reputation, especially towards children. No one in Deming knew about her past, and that, in reality, she was the notorious hellcat—Lottie Deno.

      Hunter traveled throughout the Southwest, working at several newspapers, one of which was in Deming, New Mexico. In the Introduction to his book, it states:

      "He personally knew and enjoyed the friendship of the elderly Mrs. Charlotte Thurmond at the turn of the century when he was a young newspaperman in Deming New Mexico, he lived near the Thurmond home. It was

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