by Chris Enss | Oct 30, 2019 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
Author Jan MacKell Collins’s recent book Good Time Girls of Colorado: A Red-Light History of the Centennial State (TwoDot, $19.95) will satisfy the appetite of readers who are hungry for tales about the lives of some of the Old West’s most notorious soiled doves....
by Stuart Rosebrook | Mar 30, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
H.W. Brand’s major new dual biography of Geronimo and Sherman, plus a new history of Western prostitution, a pair of classic Westerns and a new volume of Old West short stories. If you are a dedicated follower of historian H.W. Brands’ work, The Last Campaign:...
by Jan MacKell Collins | Mar 30, 2023 | Features & Gunfights
How soiled doves tried to beat the odds against hypocrisy and politicians For several decades, Hollywood has had a fine time portraying shady ladies of the past. From the illustrious Miss Kitty of CBS’s Gunsmoke, to the disreputable wenches on HBO’s Deadwood,...
by True West | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Wanton Women of Montana In the 1890s, prostitution and red-light district brothels were common across the Big Sky State. In this unknown Montana sporting house, two of the women wear the formal, socially accepted corseted dress of women of the Victorian era, but the...
by Stuart Rosebrook | Jan 20, 2023 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies
A bold, new interpretation of the conquest of North America, plus two new books on Western borders, a biography of King Fisher and a classic Western novel. For scholars of North American history—East, West, North or South—Pekka Hämäläinen’s Indigenous Continent: The...