An edition of Mountain Charley (1861)
Mountain Charley
The Adventures of Mrs. E.J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire
By Elsa Jane Guerin
Publish Date
September 1985
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Language
eng
Pages
112
Description:
The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the murder of their husband. As a result, Guerin becomes Mountain Charley and lives as a man in order to find work. This memoir follows the variety of odd jobs they work for years, while living under their new masculine identity. —Digital Transgender Archive
subjects: Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Male impersonators, Women pioneers, America, history, Women, united states, biography, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), crossdressing, transgender people, transgender men, gender expression, stealth (transgender)
People: Elsa Jane Guerin
Places: West (U.S.), Texas, Pikes Peak (Tex.), Edwards County (Tex.)
Times: 1830-1859