Barbarella Alcazar (1866-1898) was a Mexican-American outlaw of the Wild West who was infamously known as the "Bandit Queen" (La Reina de los Banditos) during her reign of terror in the American Southwest in the 1890s. She was apprehended by the bounty hunter known as the Arizona Kid in 1898 and executed by hanging shortly thereafter.
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Barbarella Alcazar was born in Sonora, Mexico in 1866, and she married the bandito Ricardo Alcazar and became an outlaw herself, involving herself in thievery, extortion, and murder as part of the large and fearsome Del Lobo Gang. After her husband's death, she became the leader of his gang, which she led across the Rio Grande to terrorize the American Southwest. Alcazar was nicknamed La Reina de los Banditos, or "the Bandit Queen", and, in 1898, Governor Myron H. McCord placed a hefty bounty on her head. The bounty hunter calling himself the Arizona Kid accepted her bounty contract from Tumbleweed, Arizona and tracked her and her gang down to Gaptooth Breach. There, Arizona killed all of her underlings and was able to capture her alive, lassoing and hogtying her before bringing her to the Tumbleweed jail for his reward. Alcazar was tried for her crimes and eventually hanged.
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