Colorado historian Tracy Beach has recently published the biography of one of Colorado’s most colorful and entrepreneurial Red Light District proprietors, My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens, 1871-1953 (Johnson Books, $18.95). Forthright, provocative and straight forward, Beach has written one of the best biographies of a Western madam since Max Evans’ Madame Millie. Well researched and documented, with numerous photographs, Beach’s biography of Laura Evans does not leav


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