Hell's Belles: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver 
Subtitle: With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman
Edition: Rev Sub edition
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780870816338
Subjects: American history; Biography: historical; Crime & criminology; Local history; Prostitution; United States - State & Local - General; History - U.S.; Criminology; Crime And Criminals; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Denver; Social History; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Howe, Sam,; Historical - General; 1839-1930; Colorado; Crime; History
Description: "This newly updated and revised edition of Hell's Belles takes the reader on a soundly researched, well-documented, and entertaining journey back to the early days of Denver. Secrest details the evolution of Denver's prostitution, gambling, drug addicts, and corrupt politicians and police who, palms outstretched, allowed it all to happen. Also included is a biography of one of Denver's original police officers, Sam Howe, upon whose crime studies the book is based.".

"The popular veneer of Denver's present-day Market Street - its fancy bars, posh restaurants, and Coors Field - is stripped away to reveal the street's former incarnation: a mecca of loose morals entrenched in prostitution, liquor, and money. Hell's Belles examines the neglected topics of vice and crime in Denver and utilizes a unique and invaluable historic source - the scrapbooks of Detective Sam Howe."--BOOK JACKET.