Myra Maybelle Shirley better known as Belle Starr was a bandit queen. She ruled multiple gangs and had her own personal weapons and favorite guns. Belle has been stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, cleaning out crooked poker games with her six-shooters and was associated with the James boys and the younger’s. After her first husband, who was Jim July Starr was shot down, she married Sam Starr. Her father John Shirley was the black sheep of a well-to-do Virginia family. John was successfully raising corn, wheat, hogs, and blooded horses. Belle’s family moved to southwest Missouri in 1839. She loved the outdoors and spending hours walking around the countryside with her older brother Bud who taught her how to handle guns. Myra Belle