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Mountain Charley

by Elsa Jane Guerin

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