Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West

by Chris Enss

Book Overview

The Gold Rush West was dotted with mining boomtowns and bustling new cities that sprang up overnight around strikes. Fortunes were made and lost daily, lawlessness was commonplace, and gambling dens, saloons, brothels, and dance halls thrived, but after a while the miners and merchants began to long for more polished amusements. Soon, theatres popped up in tents and then auditoriums and playhouses were built where operas, arias, and Shakespeare were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442247339
• ISBN13: 9781442247338
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"