Wicked Women of New Mexico

New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as itsremote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists theperfect setting in which to seize wealth. Many wicked women on the run fromtheir pasts headed there seeking new starts before and after 1912 statehood.Colorful characters such as Bronco Sue, Sadie Orchard and Lizzie McGrath werenoted mavens of mayhem, while many other women were notorious gamblers, bawdymadams or confidence tricksters. Some paid the ultimate price for crimes ofpassion, while others avoided punishment by slyly using their beguiling allureto influence authorities. Follow the raucous tales of these wild women in acollection that proves crime in early New Mexico wasn’t only a boys’ game.