Brothels Bordellos Bad Girls

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826333438
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.

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Publisher : Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN 13 : 1567352774
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West written by and published by Pikes Peak Library District. This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at the fourth annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium held June 9, 2007 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Profiles a number of prominent and exceptional women throughout the history of the Rocky Mountain West and highlights the political, cultural, economic and social conditions which these women helped to shape.

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826346103
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These profiles of the soiled doves who plied the oldest trade in the Rocky Mountains explain many of the facts of life in the nineteenth and twentieth century West.

Author : Jan MacKell
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082634612X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains written by Jan MacKell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Expanding on the research she did for Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls (UNM Press), historian Jan MacKell moves beyond the mining towns of Colorado to explore the history of prostitution in the Rocky Mountain states of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each state had its share of working girls and madams like Big Nose Kate or Calamity Jane who remain celebrities in the annals of history, but MacKell also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose role in this illicit trade nonetheless shaped our understanding of the American West.

Author : Elizabeth F. Belcham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957597426
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swansea's 'bad Girls' written by Elizabeth F. Belcham and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648123
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prohibition and Bootlegging in the American West written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prohibition was imposed by eager temperance movements organizers who sought to shape public behavior through alcoholic beverage control in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The success of reformers' efforts resulted in National Prohibition in America from 1920 to 1933, but it also resulted in a thriving illegal business in the manufacture and distribution of illegal liquor. The history of Prohibition and the resulting illegal drinking is frequently told through the lens of crime and violence in Chicago and other major East Coast cities. Often neglected are the effects of Prohibition on the Western part of the United States and how Westerners rose to the challenge of avoiding the consequences of illegal drinking. Illegal liquor was imported from abroad, made in stills using strange ingredients that were sometimes poisonous to the unlucky drinker. This history includes stories ranging from serious to quirky, and provides an entertaining account of how misguided efforts resulted in numerous unintended consequences.

Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826333100
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preserving Western History written by Andrew Gulliford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.

Author : Arturo J. Aldama
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 145710959X
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enduring Legacies written by Arturo J. Aldama and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. Enduring Legacies expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited this region. Addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado-a zone in which collisions structured by forces of race, nation, class, gender, and sexuality inevitably lead to the transformation of cultures and the emergence of new identities-this volume is the first to bring together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans. This book will be relevant to students, academics, and general readers interested in Colorado history and ethnic studies.

Author : Michael Rutter
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560376260
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boudoirs to Brothels written by Michael Rutter and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boudoirs to brothels, historian Michael Rutter takes you into the intimate world of the Wild West's women of the night. Eighteen richly researched biographies reveal the tricks and torments of the trade, with fascinating sidebars on venereal diseases (and dire "cures"), children of prostitutes, a floating brothel, and hog ranches.

Author : Michael Rutter
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560375426
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Upstairs Girls written by Michael Rutter and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire. Historian Michael Rutter offers a thorough and fascinating history of prostitution in the West, with details on why women turned to this profession and what their lives were like. Chapters on the notorious madams, the tragic Chinese sex trade, occupational hazards, rowdy dancehall girls, and the efforts of the ''Moral Purity Movement'' supplement the heart-breaking and sometimes humorous profiles on some of the most famous madams and prostitutes in history.