Fredericka Mandelbaum wasn’t the only woman making trouble in the mid-19th century. Woody Guthrie wrote this ballad in honor of Belle Starr, who ran a den of thieves in Oklahoma’s “Indian Territory” during those years. Performed here by Pete Seeger and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
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