ISBN:

• 9781569763384
• 1569763380

Description: 372 pages,8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Introduction: Sinful cities, 1863-1919
• Prologue: Madeleine : a self-made woman, 1894
• The summer women of Helena, 1867
• Butte, the black heart of Montana, 1877
• Miles City and the Wild West, 1880
• Last of the silver years, 1887
• The celestial sex trade, 1900
• Respectable purple paths, 1900
• Reflection, 1900
• The beginning of the end, 1911
• New options, 1916
• Epilogue: The wages of sin
• Major players: The women and men who made the most of a wild frontier
• Time line: From the brothels to the Congress.

LCCN: 2010053911

Control Number: 805515

Subjects:

• Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana.
• Montana -- Biography.
• Montana -- History -- 19th century.
• Montana -- History -- 20th century.
• Montana -- Social conditions.
• Prostitutes -- Montana -- Biography.
• Prostitution -- Montana -- History.
• Women -- Montana -- History.
• Women pioneers -- Montana -- Biography.
• Women pioneers -- Montana -- History.

Genre: Biographies.