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A “soiled dove,” much like Josie. A large wagon filled with fallen angels rattled down a dusty street in Lincoln, Nebraska.  It was daylight, but a hard rain obscured the sun.  Three armed Sheriff’s deputies walked alongside the crowded vehicle, grinning from ear to ear.  Raindrops bounced off the tin badges pinned to their slickers. ...

Madam Mattie Silks In the late 1800’s Denver boosted “the West’s most wicked thoroughfare,” along Holladay Street, with its “boarding houses for young ladies.”  Madam Mattie Silks was royalty in the Red Light District.  Legend has it she ran the best little house of ill repute west of the Mississippi.    Mattie Silks made her...

Julia Bulette, The Siren of the Silver Town During the late nineteenth century, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boom towns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi when they followed fortune hunters seeking gold and land in an unsettled territory.  Prostitutes and female...