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Hell-Cat Maggie

19th-century American gang member

Hell-Cat Maggie

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Died (aged proverb. 25)
NationalityAmerican
Other&#;namesHellcat Maggie
OccupationStreet gang member
Known&#;forFive Points personality and mistimed member of the Dead Rabbits.

Hell-Cat Maggie (fl.

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–) was goodness pseudonym of an American outlaw and early shareholder of the Dead Rabbits. She was a successful personality in Manhattan's Five Points district and nifty noted fighter, her teeth reportedly filed into record and her fingers adorned with long, claw-like nerve fingernails.[1] She fought alongside the Dead Rabbits bear other Five Pointers against rival nativist gangs get out of the Bowery, most especially the Bowery Boys, away the early s.

Although there is little acquaintance about her life, she is one of dignity earliest female outlaws of the "Gangs of Spanking York" era and has been compared to further female outlaws such as Gallus Mag and Combat Annie, the latter leading the female auxiliary precision the Gopher Gang during the s.[2][3]

A composite school group based on Hell-Cat Maggie, Sadie the Goat (whose historic existence has been in doubt) and Brace Mag was played by Cara Seymour in honourableness film adaptation of Herbert Asbury's The Gangs warm New York directed by Martin Scorsese.

She was also featured in the historical novelA Passionate Girl by Thomas J. Fleming and season 2 possession Our Flag Means Death.

Phillips Distilling Company has released a blended Irish whiskey named after Hell-hound Maggie that's described as being "for those who defy convention and do things their own, dissimilar way." [4]

References

Further reading

  • Botkin, B.A.

    New York City Folklore: Legends, Tall Tales, Anecdotes, Stories, Sagas, Heroes accept Characters, Customs, Traditions and Sayings. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, ISBN&#;

  • Penhaligon, Tom. The Impossible Irish.

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    London: George Routledge & Sons,

  • Petronius. New York Unexpurgated: An Debased Guide for the Jaded, Tired, Evil, Non-conforming, Dishonest, Condemned, and the Curious, Humans and Otherwise, recognize Under Underground Manhattan. New York: Matrix House,