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Colorado History: REMEMBER THEIR NAMES

Discover the MADAMS of Colorado and their impact.
 

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1. My life as a whore: the biography of Madam Laura Evens 1871-1953

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Beach, Tracy
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LOCAL HISTORY BIO Eve
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"Laura Evens wasn't any ordinary soiled dove from the days of Colorado's Wild West. Raised by a Grand Cyclops of the KKK from the Mobile, Alabama branch, she wasn't about to let anything stand in the way of what she wanted. She wanted to be rich. From a lesbian encounter during her first audition into the trade, a gun fight to help save her business, her failed attempts to prevent her friends from poisoning themselves, selling bootleg booze for her...

2. Six racy madams of Colorado

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Bancroft, Caroline
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3. Soiled doves: prostitution in the early West

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Seagraves, Anne
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Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West -- Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.