Red light women of the Rocky Mountains
by Collins, Jan MacKell
Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque ) Physical details: xxi, 458 p. ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:9780826346100 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0826346103 (hardcover : alk. paper).| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| sw 300 - 399 | 306.74097809034 Col (Browse shelf) | Available | 101233 |
The pioneering of prostitution -- Amazons of Arizona -- Courtesans of Colorado -- Illicit ladies of Idaho -- Madams and other women of Montana -- Nubians of New Mexico -- The undoing of Utah's soiled doves -- Wicked women of Wyoming -- Where did they all go?
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 integ
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