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Archive: Charley Parkhurst

Thirty Years in Disguise

Charley Parkhurst, Noted Californian Stage-Driver Discovered, After Death, to be a Woman

The Reported Man-Woman Case

The newspapers have been filled with accounts of an alleged extraordinary discovery made on the death of Charley Parkhurst

A Queer Woman

For Thirty Years Disguised as a Man - She Performs the Most Brave and Dashing Acts a Stage-Driver

A Most Wonderful Case

Death of a Woman Who for Twenty-Five Years Passed as a Man

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A special thank you to the team at DTA who have supported the research and preservation of Charley's story. www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net

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