Joe Monahan | |
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![]() An image of "Little Joe" Monahan, previously Johanna Monahan, published in a Buffalo newspaper upon his death in 1904. | |
Born | Johanna Monahan 1850 |
Died | 1904 (aged 53–54) |
Joe "Little Joe" Monahan (1850–1904), born Johanna Monahan, was an American businessman who worked in various prospecting and cattle industries around Silver City, Idaho, under an assumed masculine name and identity. The revelation of Joe's sex became a sensationalized national news story after his death in 1904.[1] His life was the subject of the 1993 film The Ballad of Little Jo.