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1 online resource (xxi, 458 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-451) and index. |
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The pioneering of prostitution -- Amazons of Arizona -- Courtesans of Colorado -- Illicit ladies of Idaho -- Madams and other women of Montana -- Nubians of New Mexico -- The undoing of Utah's soiled doves -- Wicked women of Wyoming -- Where did they all go? |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
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 integ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- United States -- History.
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Prostitution. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Female prostitution. |
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Prostitution. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: MacKell, Jan, 1962- Red light women of the Rocky Mountains. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008046797 (OCoLC)271104000 |
| ISBN |
9780826346124 (e-book) |
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082634612X (electronic book) |
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9780826346124 (electronic book) |
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9780826346100 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0826346103 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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