madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier /
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Lael Morgan.
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Chicago, Ill. :
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Chicago Review Press,
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c2011.
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xiii, 304 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm.
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Introduction: Sinful cities, 1863-1919 -- Prologue: Madeleine : a self-made woman, 1894 -- The summer women of Helena, 1867 -- Butte, the black heart of Montana, 1877 -- Miles City and the Wild West, 1880 -- Last of the silver years, 1887 -- The celestial sex trade, 1900 -- Respectable purple paths, 1900 -- Reflection, 1900 -- The beginning of the end, 1911 -- New options, 1916 -- Epilogue: The wages of sin -- Major players: The women and men who made the most of a wild frontier -- Time line: From the brothels to the Congress.