Chris Enss
Soiled Doves

Soiled Doves

Review of Jan MacKell Collins’s Good Time Girls of Colorado: A Red-Light History of the Centennial State and Good Time Girls of Arizona and New Mexico: A Red-Light History of the American Southwest.

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Mystery Sharpshooter 

Mystery Sharpshooter 

What’s better than a good, old-fashioned murder mystery? An illustrious cowgirl helping to solve a good old-fashioned murder mystery. That’s the...

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Nevada’s Silver Roots

Nevada’s Silver Roots

What do San Francisco real estate, George Hearst, Mark Twain, the Civil War and the Nobel Peace Prize have in common? The answer: Nevada’s famous...

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Gold Rush Fugitive

Gold Rush Fugitive

This is a powerful, American melodrama with strong, fearless characters willing to endure anything to realize their dream of striking it rich in...

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Lady Pinkertons

Lady Pinkertons

Her smile could be shy; her glance at times demure, but her ears never missed a secret. A master of disguises, she changed her accent at will,...

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Grande Dames of the West

Grande Dames of the West

In May 1888, a host of well-dressed and polished guests crowded into the fashionable lobby of the Windsor Hotel in St. Helena, California, to catch...

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Lights! Camera! Action!

Lights! Camera! Action!

Forget Broadway! Some of early theaters’ brightest and most accomplished entertainers performed on stages throughout Arizona. In his book Arizona on...

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