Mountain Charley: Or, the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire (Western Frontier Library Vol. 40)

Trade Paperback. Biography. Called "the skirt who wore men's clothes, " Mountain Charley was a part of the wild West in the mid-nineteenth century. Married at twelve, widowed at fifteen, she donned male clothing in order to make an honest living---as riverboatman, railroad brakeman, miner, rancher, Indian trader, businessman, and bartender---and to track down her husband's murderer. The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the murder of their husband. As a result, Guerin becomes Mountain Charley and lives as a man in order to find work. This memoir follows the variety of odd jobs they work for years, while living under their new masculine identity. —Digital Transgender Archive First published in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1861.