Mary Elizabeth Haley was born into a wealthy Texas ranch family, but she was kidnapped in a Comanche raid at age ten. Three years later, her father paid a ransom for her return. Fearing Mary had been defiled, the family shunned her. When she brought home a suitor, her father shot him dead. Mary fled to Kansas…and into a life of prostitution. But her gambler husband was drowning in debt, which he paid off by pimping his own wife.
Excommunicated from her church and betrayed by the love of her life, Maggie made her way West as one of the most popular—and well paid—harlots of the mining camps. As a child in the s, Thelma Dolly Copeland suffered repeated sexual abuse and ran away at thirteen. She finally closed her door at 24 Creek Street in Illustrated with rare historical photographs, Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women takes you inside the dark, dangerous lives of 18 madams and working girls.
Come peek between the covers for an intimate look at the lives of women of the Old West. Many turned to the red light district to survive. Mehr lesen Weniger lesen. Produktbeschreibungen Kurzbeschreibung Come peek between the covers for an intimate look at the lives of women of the Old West. Nicht aktiviert. Wie berechnet Amazon die Produktbewertungen? Amazon berechnet die Sternbewertungen eines Produkts mithilfe eines maschinell gelernten Modells anstelle des Durchschnitts der Rohdaten.
Die besten internationalen Rezensionen. Verifizierter Kauf. I bought this book out of curiosity. I was not disappointed. Wir konnten Ihre Stimmabgabe leider nicht speichern. This is a short story book about the specific lives of the women who became everyone's bride. Women's job opportunities on the American frontier were few and far between. Acceptable occupations were: wife, laundress, cook, seamstress or dress maker - and prostitution.
The last occupation paid considerably more than any of the other occupations. An Army laundress would probably be second as the Army paid these women straight out of the soldier's pay, gave her medical care and provided her food provisions as well as transportation.
