Mattie Silks. Hollywood couldn't have done better if it wanted to name one of the most famous and successful “love merchants” of the Old West. Her real name was always a mystery—was she a Martha? Was she Mate Wineman? Mattie Silks was the only name she answered to as she became the undisputed “Queen of Denver's Red Light District” in the late 1800s. Her girls were known to possess “the prettiest of faces, the tiniest of waists, the creamiest of bosoms, the daintiest of giggles, the b
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