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

Providing new insights into women's struggle for equality, this historical study shows the true story of the women of old Montana. With few career options available in the 19th century, many of the most independent and enterprising women turned to the world's oldest profession for a lucrat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morgan, Lael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2011.
Temas:
1800-1999
Frontier and pioneer life > Montana.
Women pioneers > Montana > History.
Women > Montana > History.
Prostitution > Montana > History.
Women pioneers > Montana > Biography.
Prostitutes > Montana > Biography.
Pionnières > Montana > Histoire.
Pionnières > Montana > Biographies.
Prostituées > Montana > Biographies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Frontier and pioneer life
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Social conditions
Women
Women pioneers
Montana > History > 19th century.
Montana > History > 20th century.
Montana > Social conditions.
Montana > Biography.
Montana > Conditions sociales.
Montana > Biographies.
Montana
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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