The Real Women of the Wild West
All Artwork by Bob Boze Bell
The Queen of the Colorado Red Light District
Jennie Rogers was a tall drink of water, as they used to say, standing at six feet tall.
She had gone through several names and marriages before she landed in Denver wearing her trademark pair of emerald earrings. She purchased her first “house” from Mattie Silks in 1880. At 1942 Market Street, she opened “The House of Mirrors,” which was known as the most opulent and infam
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