Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls
Subtitle: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930
Contributors: Thomas J. Noel (Foreword)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: October 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780826333421
Subjects: Prostitution; History - U.S.; Social Science; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; United States - State & Local - West; Criminology; Human Sexuality; History / United States / General; History; Colorado; Prostitutes
Description: "Prostitution thrived in pioneer Colorado. Mining was the principal occupation and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, focusing her research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City, and similar boomtown communities. She used census data, Sanborn maps, city directories, property records, marriage records, and court records to document and trace the movements of the women over the course of their careers, uncovering work histories, medical problems, and numerous relocations from town to town. She traces many to their graves, through years filled with abuse, disease, narcotics, and violence."--BOOK JACKET.