Della Moore
{{Short description|American prostitute and girlfriend of Kid Curry}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Della Moore
| image = Della Moore using alias of Annie Rogers, circe 1890-1904 (cropped).jpg
| alt = Della Moore using alias of Annie Rogers
| caption = Della Moore using alias of Annie Rogers
| birth_date = c. 1880
| birth_place = Near El Paso, Texas
| death_date = c. {{death year and age|1926|1880}}
| other_names = Annie Rogers, Maude Williams
}}
Della Moore (1880–1926?), also known as Annie Rogers or Maude Williams,{{cite book |last1=Jameson |first1=W. C. |title=Rocky Mountain Train Robberies: True Stories of Notorious Bandits and Infamous Escapades |date=2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781493033379 |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vwl0DwAAQBAJ&q=Della+Moore+&pg=PA81 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The Tennessean 30 Apr 1902, page 10 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/604242867/ |access-date=2023-01-12 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en |quote=The bond of Miss Annie Rogers, alias Mrs. Whalen, Miss Smith, Miss Williams, Mrs. B. Harris, Miss Walker, Miss Della Moore and a few other names...}} was a woman working as a prostitute during the closing years of the Old West,{{cite web|title=Chasing alias: Now, was that Smith, or Jones?|url=http://castlerocknewspress.net/stories/chasing-alias-now-was-that-smith-or-jones,172298|website=Colorado Community Media|access-date=30 March 2018|language=en|date=4 November 2014}} best known for being the girlfriend of outlaw Harvey Logan (Kid Curry),{{cite book|last1=Blewer|first1=Mac|title=Wyoming's Outlaw Trail|date=2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738596068|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHZNXzGaX7oC&q=Della+Moore+prostitute&pg=PA62|language=en|page=62}} who rode with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang.
Early life and life with Curry
Little is known about Moore's early years. She is believed to have been born around 1880 in Texas{{cite web|title=Old West Female Outlaws – The Wild Bunch Women|url=https://worldhistory.us/american-history/old-west-female-outlaws-the-wild-bunch-women.php|website=World History|access-date=30 March 2018|date=22 May 2017}} near El Paso. She was pretty, with a petite build, and began working in brothels in Mena, Arkansas, Fort Worth and San Antonio around the age of 15.{{cite web |last1=Van Ostrand |first1=Maggie |title=Annie Rogers and the Bank Dick |url=https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-annierogers/ |website=Legends of America |access-date=7 August 2018}} By 1899, she was working in the famous brothel of Madame Fannie Porter, having met and becoming involved with Curry some time around mid-1898.{{cite web |last1=Carrigan |first1=Rob |title=Chasing alias: Now, was that Smith, or Jones? |url=http://castlerocknewspress.net/stories/chasing-alias-now-was-that-smith-or-jones,172298 |website=Colorado Community Media |access-date=10 December 2018 |language=en |date=4 November 2014}} She would help hide Curry after his robberies, and often helped him resupply before he would leave again.
By 1900, Moore had left prostitution and began traveling with Curry,{{cite book |last1=Franscell |first1=Ron |title=Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Texas |date=2010 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780762774937 |page=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EL8EO5WtvIC&q=Della+Moore+prostitute&pg=PA70 |language=en}} who was between robberies. The two traveled to Tennessee where they met with other members of the gang to include Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion. On October 14, 1901, Moore was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee for passing notes associated with an earlier robbery Curry had committed.{{Cite web |title=Nashville Banner 16 Oct 1901, page 1 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/603680661/ |access-date=2023-01-12 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}} She and Curry never saw one another again. She was jailed, but was later acquitted on June 18, 1902.
There is no evidence to suggest that Moore and Curry reunited after her release from jail. Both Kilpatrick and Bullion were arrested in St. Louis, Missouri while she was incarcerated, and Curry killed two Knoxville policemen to avoid capture only one day after their capture. He was later captured, but escaped again. She traveled to Arkansas, where she returned to prostitution, and by the time that Curry was killed in Colorado by a posse in 1904, Moore had returned to Texas, and for a time, she worked again for Fannie Porter in her brothel. It is believed that she later became a teacher, dying around 1926, but that is unconfirmed.{{cn|date=January 2023}} She often changed her name, and it is not known what path her life took after her involvement with Curry. It is unknown if they ever married.
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