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Book The List of Soiled Doves

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  • Author : Redding Walters
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-02-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book The List of Soiled Doves written by Redding Walters and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Redding Walters came upon raid sheets from bordellos in Vancouver, B.C., Canada while researching in the city's archives in 2011.By comparing the names on the list with census records from the same time, she has been able to piece together tiny snippets of the forgotten women of Vancouver's early days. "The List of Soiled Doves" is a fictional novella that gives voice to the prostitutes, sometimes called soiled doves, that were rounded up routinely by the city. By 1907, these women disappeared from the census records and few traces of any were ever found again. The women collected and catalogued by the city reflect the multi-ethnic, multi-ethical, troubled, fierce, savvy, intelligent, humorous and heart-filled entrepreneurs that populated houses of ill-repute from Alaska to California as the west was won.

Book Soiled Doves

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  • Author : Anne Seagraves
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780961908843
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Soiled Doves written by Anne Seagraves and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West -- Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.

Book A Directory of Soiled Doves  Butte  Montana  1870 1916

Download or read book A Directory of Soiled Doves Butte Montana 1870 1916 written by J. M. Moynahan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soiled Dove Nest

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  • Author : Joseph David Kayne
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2022-02-03
  • ISBN : 1641387718
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The Soiled Dove Nest written by Joseph David Kayne and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soiled Dove Nest: To Jonas and Cameo Lucky 13 was a little piece of heaven on earth. Cindy, a nineteenaEUR"yearaEUR"old homeless girl who had spent the better part of five years on the street, had been beaten and left to die and had been rescued by Jonas and Cameo. So is this like a soiled dove nest or something? Cindy asked. The love continues. Fangels of Sharadan: The beautiful Fangel of Sharadan Magdaleana lay dying from the sting of the scorobat! Can the healing power of the light that Josiah holds heal her wounds completely? Slumberland Key: Even at my young age of twelve years old, little did I realize just how mysterious or what fantastic adventures would be forthcoming from this mysterious box! Edenaria: In a waraEUR"ravaged far eastern land of indescribable beauty, dreams and visions keep pulling, enticing, drawing me back to I know not what! Then So Shan Tu appears!

Book Brothels  Bordellos   Bad Girls

Download or read book Brothels Bordellos Bad Girls written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.

Book Daughters of Joy  Sisters of Misery

Download or read book Daughters of Joy Sisters of Misery written by Anne M. Butler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were called "frail sisters," "fallen angels," "filles de Joie, " "soiled doves," "queens of the night," and "whores." They worked the seamy brothels, saloons, cribs, streets, and "hog ranches" of the American frontier. They were the prostitutes of the post-Civil War West. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery details the destitute lives of these nearly anonymous women. Anne Butler reveals who they were, how they lived and worked, and why they became an essential element in the development of the West's emerging institutions. Her story bears little resemblance to the popular depictions of prostitutes in film and fiction. Far removed from the glittering lives of dancehall girls, these women lived at the boarders of society and the brink of despair. Poor and uneducated, they faced a world where scarce jobs, paltry wages, and inflated prices made prostitution a likely if bitter choice of employment. At best their daily lives were characterized by fierce economic competition and at worst by fatal violence in the hands of customers, coworkers, or themselves. They were scorned and attacked by the legal, military, church, and press establishments; nevertheless, as Butler shows, these same institutions also used prostitutes as a means for maintaining their authority and as a lure for economic development. Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery is based on an enormous amount of research in more than twenty repositories in Wyoming, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Kansas. Using census lists, police dockets, jail registers, military correspondence, trial testimony, inquests, court martials, newspapers, post return, and cemetery records, Butler illuminates the dark corners of a dark profession and adds much to our knowledge of both western and women's history.

Book Soiled Dove

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  • Author : Ellie Lynn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781989276082
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Soiled Dove written by Ellie Lynn and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains

Download or read book Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains written by Jan MacKell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Expanding on the research she did for Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls (UNM Press), historian Jan MacKell moves beyond the mining towns of Colorado to explore the history of prostitution in the Rocky Mountain states of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each state had its share of working girls and madams like Big Nose Kate or Calamity Jane who remain celebrities in the annals of history, but MacKell also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose role in this illicit trade nonetheless shaped our understanding of the American West.

Book Upstairs Girls

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  • Author : Michael Rutter
  • Publisher : Farcountry Press
  • Release : 2012-11-26
  • ISBN : 1560375426
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Upstairs Girls written by Michael Rutter and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire. Historian Michael Rutter offers a thorough and fascinating history of prostitution in the West, with details on why women turned to this profession and what their lives were like. Chapters on the notorious madams, the tragic Chinese sex trade, occupational hazards, rowdy dancehall girls, and the efforts of the ''Moral Purity Movement'' supplement the heart-breaking and sometimes humorous profiles on some of the most famous madams and prostitutes in history.

Book Boudoirs to Brothels

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  • Author : Michael Rutter
  • Publisher : Farcountry Press
  • Release : 2015-10-05
  • ISBN : 1560376260
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Boudoirs to Brothels written by Michael Rutter and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boudoirs to brothels, historian Michael Rutter takes you into the intimate world of the Wild West's women of the night. Eighteen richly researched biographies reveal the tricks and torments of the trade, with fascinating sidebars on venereal diseases (and dire "cures"), children of prostitutes, a floating brothel, and hog ranches.

Book Wicked Women

Download or read book Wicked Women written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women’s experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser known characters.

Book The Soiled Dove  Etc   By W  S  Hayward

Download or read book The Soiled Dove Etc By W S Hayward written by William Stephens HAYWARD and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ruby Queen

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  • Author : Lori Beasley Bradley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06-20
  • ISBN : 9784867509173
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The Ruby Queen written by Lori Beasley Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattie Wallace is rejected by her family and her community, when she refuses to marry one brother - because she loves the other. Labeled a trollop and run out of town, she finds herself on the road with meager possessions and little money. Soon, Mattie meets Roxana: a woman in the Trade. Mattie is impressed with Roxie's confidence, independence, and her lovely wardrobe, and also with the fact that Roxie has made herself a life that is not dictated by a man. Mattie joins Roxie on her way to a new and profitable life in the West, where women are few and men are willing to pay for their company. Making her way to Abilene, Kansas - a cow town where cowboys spend their money on whiskey and women - Mattie soon learns the ways of the women in the Trade, and the hazards of the west. This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

Book High spirited Women of the West

Download or read book High spirited Women of the West written by Anne Seagraves and published by Treasure Chest Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographies of the following Western women: Jessie Benton Fremont--Abigail Scott Duniway--Sarah Winnemucca--Fanny Stenhouse--Ann Eliza Young--Belle Starr--Nellie Cashmen--Jeanne Elizabeth Wier--Helen Jane Wiser Stewart and Grace Carpenter Hudson.

Book Too Wicked to Wed

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  • Author : Cara Elliott
  • Publisher : Forever
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 145550629X
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Too Wicked to Wed written by Cara Elliott and published by Forever. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outspoken and independent, Lady Alexa Bingham enjoys the heady freedom of making all her own decisions, even though the challenges of overseeing her family's country estate are daunting. But when a chance encounter with London's most notorious rake awakens a secret longing for adventure, she accepts her aunt's invitation for a Season in Town . . . only to find that breaking the rules of the ton has serious consequences. The Earl of Killingworth uses his rakehell reputation to hide the fact that poverty has forced him to work for a living. As the owner of a gambling den and brothel, Connor has no time for glittering ballrooms or innocent young ladies. But after a reckless wager leaves him with a new business partner, he is forced to take a risky gamble . . . Will the cards fall in their favor? Alexa and Connor begin to play a dangerous game of intrigue and deception as they seek to outwit a cunning adversary who wants to put them permanently out of business. But if they are not careful, it is the flames of their own fiery attraction that may destroy them.

Book Brides of the Multitude

Download or read book Brides of the Multitude written by Jeremy Agnew and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brides of the Multitude is a fascinating, historically accurate account of why prostitution ran rampant in the Old West during the prudish Victorian period of the United States. It explains who these women were, their reasons for becoming prostitutes, the types of establishments of prostitution, the conditions under which the women worked, and problems associated with sexually transmitted diseases and contraception. Weaving facts with colorful anecdotes, the author presents an in-depth look at the "ladies" who conducted business in the infamous red light districts located throughout the frontier.