Wanted, Wanted, Bandit Queen wanted, reward, dead or alive! Myra Maybelle Shirley was the real name of the wanted criminal known thru history, Belle star or the bandit Queen. She was born on February 5, in 1848 and died on February 3 1889, and lived on a farm near Carthage, Missouri when her mother and father got married and sold the farm. She was the only girl out of six kids, Myra’s older brother, John Allison “Bud” was born in 1842, and her younger brother, Edwin, was born in 1850. The next ten years they had two more sons. and had parents that established a hotel and a tavern. Most of her family members called her May, though, but soon was given the title of the, bandit…show more content… Her father, John Shirley, job by growing wheat, growing corn, raising playful pigs and horses, though he was considered the black sheep of his family, because he moved to India, where he married and divorced twice. He soon married Elizabeth Shirley, or Belle’s mother, Elizabeth, some called her Eliza cause it was shorter, Eliza Hatfield Shirley, was John Shirley's third wife. In the 1860s, Belle’s father sold the farm and moved the family to Carthage, where he bought an stable and blacksmith shop in the town square. Frank and Jesse James a group called, Younger brothers were the main customers. With the money Frank Shirley gained, they sent Belle to attended school, she soon participated at Carthage Academy for Females, and then transferred to Cravens, a private school and that allowed talent students that participated in music. At the beginning of the Civil War, her parents began to be southern sympathizers and supporters of Confederate troops in Missouri. After burning and widespreads destruction in Carthage during the Civil War battle. After that, the family migrated to Scyene, Texas, and established a hotel and tavern, or an establishment for selling beer and other drinks to be consumed or also sold with the serving food. They soon had visitors. Soon, the wanted outlaws of Missouri, Cole, Jim, Bob and John Younger, or the younger brothers, and Jesse James used the Shirley’s home as a hideout and caught on to being an outlaw. Belle's soon grew up and became a person who’s life life of odyssey, or a Greek epic poem that is traditionally used for Homer, or a poem that describing the travels and discoveries of ten years of wandering. Aventally, after many years of traveling Belle’s father had returned from his travels to Ithaca and killed the suitors who had spread the plague to his original wife, or Belle’s mother, Penelope
