Here are just a few of them. Lottie Deno went by the names Carlotta J. Thompkins, Charlotte Tompkins, Charlotte Thurmond, Mystic Maud, "the Angel of San Antonio," and "Queen of the Pasteboards" at ...

"Lottie Deno," the chief pseudonym of a woman born Carlotta Thompkins in Kentucky in 1844, properly belongs to what cultural critic Greil Marcus has called "the old, weird America"-- the backdrop ...

Rhonda Fleming, shown here with her co-star Burt Lancaster, played “Laura Denbow,” a fanciful version of the subject of Frank Thurmond's historical novel “Lottie Deno”in the 1957 film ...

There have been some exceptions. Lottie Deno traveled around Texas with her husband playing poker in the mid-1800s until they moved to New Mexico and opened their own gambling room in 1877.