Tracy Beach’s latest book, My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens, 1871-1953, brings to life the story of one of Colorado’s infamous madams. Beach used interviews with Evens and her employees conducted by the popular Colorado historian, Max Mazzulla, in the 1940s and early 1950s. The author supplements these firsthand accounts with notes from her own interviews with people who knew Evens, and with facts about the lives of prostitutes from well-known secondary sources. Evens,

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- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2016
- Frank Canton’s Assassination Squad
- Doc Holliday: Deadly Killer?
- “You Got Me!”
- “I am A Friend to any Brave and Gallant Outlaw”
- Western Events for February 2016
- John D. McDermott
- Bleeding Kansas
- What route did the cattle drives take to get to Sedalia, Missouri?
- Buried Alive
- George Ruffner’s Winning Hand
- A Natural Born Businesswoman
- The First Drive By Shooting
- The Croquet Kid
- The Camp Grant Massacre – Arizona
- Playing the Numbers
- Bamboozler Anthony Blum
- As a Farm Woman Thinks
- The Walker Party Unraveled
- Stagecoach Mary
- John Bull’s Fists
- The Railroad Arrives in Yuma
- I’m Your Huckleberry, That’s Just my Game
- A Deadly Kitchen
- The Chinese Exclusion Act
- Custer, Then & Now
- Lightning Without Thunder
- Cochise County’s Winged Dragon
- A Six Inch Rain
- Billy Vs. Ned
- Wilbur Sanders of Montana
- Did frontier pioneers use whiskey as a medicine?
- Women Outlaws
- Desperados Waiting for a Train
- Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Mescalero Melee
- Frank Hamer’s Brother
- Joe Phy vs Pete Gabriel
- The Men from Music Mountain
- Did Tombstone diarist George W. Parsons ever marry the girl he referred to as “Natalie?”
- Burlesque Baseball
- The Cowboy’s Dream
- The Reno Gang
- Was stuntman Joe Canutt related to Yakima Canutt?
- Walking the Line
- The Pinkertons
- The Dodge City War
- Legends, Outlaws, Brothers
- Dock Newton’s Midnight Burglary
- Priceless Mormon Treasure
- A Mission Tour of the Pacific Northwest
- The Gypsy and the Bear
- The Reno Gang’s Last Hurrah
- Cole Younger Never Got The Lead Out
- Remington’s Arizona Play
- John Tunstall’s Journey West
- Is it Billy?
- Killin’ Killeen
- An American Classic
- A Western Woman’s Parlor Life
- Pancho’s Lost Film
- The 3X Brand
- What’s in the Name?
- Old West Gangsters
- An old photograph depicts an Indian burial scaffold with a dead horse in the foreground. Was that normal?
- Pat Garrett’s Assassin
- Lawyers of Tombstone’s “Rotten Row”
- O Homo
- City of Angels, City of Vice