Old West Saloon Girls, Madams & Bodegas (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This book is meant to be a historical interpretation of prostitution on the American frontier and not a question of the morality of those involved in the sex trade. The book mainly concentrates on the elite parlor houses and their madams and the contributions they have made to the history of the American West. The book gives the history of Sadie Orchard, Dell Burke and Belle LaMarr in detail and their contributions to the history of their areas. Belle LaMarr is better known as Madam Varnish, and the only history really known about her life were the years she spent as the main madam in White Oaks, New Mexico. Dell Burke was worth over a million dollars upon her death after she ran a successful brothel business in Lusk, Wyoming for sixty years. Sadie Orchard was New Mexico Territory's first woman stagecoach driver. Two areas in the United States were still infamous during the last days of legalized prostitution. Deadwood, South Dakota had one of the last brothel districts in the United States as did a little cow town in Texas called La Grange where the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas resided for decades and had a good business. The twentieth century was a time of reform, and the bodegas and whorehouses were hit hard during these years causing most of them to go out of business. The book also discusses the profession of prostitution in Nevada and the good and bad of legalized prostitution.