Item Details
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
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, [2011]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.