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CARTER JO PRICE — I WON’T LOSE THIS MOMENT CHASING ANOTHER

KNOWN AS: The Prairie Fox

BORN: c. 1860s, American Frontier

DIED: 1882, the Arizona Territory

OCCUPATION: Cowgirl, ranch hand, horsewoman, outlaw, diarist

NOTORIETY: One of the most infamous female figures of the late American frontier. Linked to numerous robberies, cattle raids, and disappearances across the Southwest

KNOWN ASSOCIATES: William H. Bonney ("Billy the Kid")

CLAIM TO FAME: Frontier lore maintains she was the great love of Billy the Kid's life, though historians continue to debate the extent of their relationship.

SKILLS (NOTED BY INDIVIDUALS AT THE TIME): Expert rider Skilled marksman, accomplished tracker, known for quick wit and exceptional memory, capable of out-riding most men of her era

PERSONALITY (NOTED BY INDIVIDUALS AT THE TIME): Fiercely independent, sharp-tongued, intelligent, and notoriously difficult to intimidate. Contemporary accounts describe her as equally capable of charming a room or starting a fight in one.

THE JOURNALS: Fifty-two surviving journals, discovered decades after her death, form the primary source of information about her life. The volumes document everything from cattle drives and robberies to frontier politics, personal relationships, and life in the dying Wild West.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: The journals transformed Carter Price from a regional legend into one of the most extensively documented women of the frontier era, offering a rare first-person account of life beyond the law in the American West.

Long after sheriffs, bounty hunters, and gunfighters faded into history, Carter Jo endured through her own words — preserved in fifty-two journals that refused to let her be forgotten.

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