Download Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930 AudioBook Free
Prostitution thrived in pioneer Colorado. Mining was the principal occupation and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. Jan MacKell offers a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, concentrating her research on the mining cities of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City, and similar boomtown areas. She used census data, Sanborn maps, city sites, property records, relationship records, and court records to file and trace the activities of the ladies over the course of their occupations, uncovering work histories, medical problems, and numerous relocations from town to town. She traces many to their graves, through years filled with maltreatment, disease, narcotics, and violence.The book is released by University of New Mexico Press.
