Wild West gunfighter, outlaw Belle Starr, with her lover Blue Duck, sepia-tone photo print. Created in the early 1990s for The American Heritage Galleries. 11" X 14" printed on card stock, in original gallery packaging. Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr (1848 – 1889), better known as Belle Starr, was an American outlaw who gained national notoriety after her violent death. She associated with the James–Younger Gang and other outlaws & was convicted of horse theft in 1883 & was fatally shot in 1889 in a case that is still officially unsolved. Her story was popularized by Richard K. Fox — editor and publisher of the National Police Gazette — and she later became a popular character in television and films.