What offenses did these women commit to cause them to be locked away for the protection of the citizens? These twenty-three women, wearing frills, lace, and their best bonnets, became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel in early Wyoming.
Others seem only to have been at the wrong place and time..
Some of these Petticoat Prisoners may have been a threat to society: Anna Bruce baked poison into her father\'s plum pie
Eliza "Big Jack" Stewart shot a man in the neck at a dance.
What offenses did these women commit to cause them to be locked away for the protection of the citizens? These twenty-three women, wearing frills, lace, and their best bonnets, became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel in early Wyoming