7 Best biography memoir books like Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit by John Boessenecker

Cover of Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit by John Boessenecker

Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

By: John Boessenecker

3.52

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A True West magazine Best Book of 2021, a nominee for the MPIBA Annual Reading the West Book Award,…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit by John Boessenecker , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

By: Beth Macy

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, … read more

Similar categories in Beth Macy's Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction

2. The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris

By: Tom Sancton

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Was the world s wealthiest woman Liliane Bettencourt heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar… read more

Similar categories in Tom Sancton's The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

Cover of The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

3. The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

By: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

3.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Capta… read more

Similar categories in Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos's The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier by Bob Drury

4. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

By: Bob Drury

4.06

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall … read more

Similar categories in Bob Drury's Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • westerns
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer

5. Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

By: Tori Telfer

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten fe… read more

Similar categories in Tori Telfer's Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If you meet her, you will like her. The con woman's likability is the single most tool she has, sharp as a chef's knife and fake as a theatre mask. Without her likability, she would be nothing. If yo…"

-Tori Telfer, Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Cover of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

6. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

By: Nathalia Holt

3.88

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the… read more

Similar categories in Nathalia Holt's Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn

7. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice by Tom Clavin

8. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

By: Tom Clavin

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more

Similar categories in Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • westerns
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George  Stephanopoulos

9. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

Similar categories in George Stephanopoulos's The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

10. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura

11. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

By: Janice P. Nimura

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more

Similar categories in Janice P. Nimura's The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang by Tom Clavin

12. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

Similar categories in Tom Clavin's The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • westerns
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

13. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

Similar categories in Susan Jonusas's Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre

14. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

By: Merve Emre

3.25

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daught… read more

Similar categories in Merve Emre's The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The lower orders of men are far closer to the higher orders of animals than to the higher orders of men, and we ought to recognize that fact. (From Katherine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Bri…"

-Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

Cover of The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring by Patti McCracken

15. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

By: Patti McCracken

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more

Similar categories in Patti McCracken's The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

16. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

By: Steven Johnson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more

Similar categories in Steven Johnson's The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

17. The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal

By: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

4.24

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that intertwines the iconic narrative of Anne… read more

Similar categories in Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl's The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit by John Boessenecker

18. Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

By: John Boessenecker

3.52

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A True West magazine Best Book of 2021, a nominee for the MPIBA Annual Reading the West Book Award,… read more

Similar categories in John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • westerns
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone

19. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

By: Daniel Stone

3.93

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stone's The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Cover of Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild

20. Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

By: Adam Hochschild

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing … read more

Similar categories in Adam Hochschild's Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey

21. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

By: Colin Dickey

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dickey's Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy book and John Boessenecker's Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

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The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

3.29

Transform Your Habits

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Tori Telfer

3.73

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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Nathalia Holt

3.88

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Janice P. Nimura

3.59

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Hampton Sides

4.51

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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