Women of the wild West were tough. Michael Rutter’s Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women illustrates their fortitude, bravery and the miracle and determination of survival. Treated like commodities to be used, abused and discarded, they lived in a world full of uncertainties. Consider “Squirrel Tooth Alice,” captured at age ten by Comanches, returned three years later to family and friends who shunned her. Or “Polly” Bemis, a Chinese girl sold by her father wh
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