The Real Story of the Female Hunter of Delaware County BY Diane Anderson-Minshall August 02 2012 5:00 AM ET
http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2012/08/02/real-story-female-hunter-delaware-county Born in 1829 to a working-class family in upstate New York, Lucy Ann Lobdell quickly gained a reputation as a marksman, earning the nickname "The Female Hunter of Delaware County." But after leaving home, Lobdell proved something different altogether: a transgender man. Now Lobdell's distant relative, professor Bambi L. Lobdell, has written a fascinating account of Joseph Lobdell — who she calls Lucy/Joe — and what happened after he moved to the frontier, married a woman, and bucked nineteenth century social restrictions and gender expectations. It's a fascinating story of forced marriage, arrest, and incarceration in an insane asylum. Although twentieth-century scholars have labeled Lobdell a lesbian, the author, while incorporating queer theory and Lobdell's own writings, makes a fascinating argument in
A Strange Sort of Being:The Transgender Life of Lucy Ann / Joseph Israel Lobdell, 1829-1912 that there never was a "female hunter" but really a transgendered man who would eventually be locked away from society and his beloved for insisting on being a man.
