Wanton West madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / Lael Morgan.

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Main Author: Morgan, Lael.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, c2011.
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Table of 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.