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Clash of the Mad Madams

by | Sep 4, 2022 | Classic Gunfights, Features & Gunfights

Alice Abbott vs. Etta Clark The War Over Beautiful, Busty Bessie Colvin   April 18, 1886 The beautiful Bessie Colvin is fed up. After a year of arguing over “extracurricular activities” and bad accounting, the star attraction at Alice Abbott’s bordello in El Paso, Texas, is quitting to seek better working conditions elsewhere. Bessie’s als


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