Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains: A Red-Light History of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming

by Jan Mackell Collins

Book Overview

While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain region. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493038079
• ISBN13: 9781493038077
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"