There are several characters in American
wild west history known as Mountain Charley.
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Elsa Jane Forest Guerin
Elsa Jane Forest Guerin, better known as Mountain Charley, is thought to have been a woman who dressed as a man for most of her life. She lived in the American frontier for most of her life, and served in the American Civil War.
She first dresse ...
, a woman who lived disguised as a man to avenge her husband's murder.
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Charlotte Hatfield, a female soldier for the Union Army whose true name may be Elsa Jane Guerin
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Charles Henry McKiernan
Charles Henry McKiernan (c. 1825–1892), known popularly as "Mountain Charley," was one of the first Euro-American settlers in the Santa Cruz Mountains region of California. McKiernan was a hunter, rancher, teamster, road-builder and stage-lin ...
(1825–1892), early settler in California
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Charley Parkhurst
Charley Darkey Parkhurst (born Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst; 1812 – December 18, 1879) also known as "One-Eyed Charley" or "Six-Horse Charley", was an American stagecoach driver, farmer and rancher in California. Raised female in New England, Pa ...
(1812–1879), American stagecoach driver, farmer and rancher in California discovered after his death to have been a transgender man
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