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Soiled Doves
Prostitution in the Early West
Anne Seagraves
Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Illustrated
Softbound: 175 pages
Publisher: Wesanne Publications
February 1994
Soiled Doves was a well written and informative view of 19th century prostitution in the United States.
Readers will smile, cry, and become angry, as each of the stories unfold. "The Love Story of Lottie Johl"
is a haunting story which relates the full spectrum of the human condition, and relates how humanity can
be so incredibly cruel to others, those individuals that were simply trying to make a way for themselves
in the west.
The lives of many women were explored in Soiled Doves. The stories were tastefully written
and a delight to read. After reading Soiled Doves, one develops a different, more forgiving, view of
prostitution and the ladies who were employed in it during the 1800s. Soiled Doves is a "must read" if
the reader has an appreciation for American History and the role prostitution played in its development.
This book provides a glimpse into a fairly unusual topic: prositution in the "Wild West" of the 1800's.
It covers the gamut, from the elite sophisticated brothels with the top-notch "girls," to the hovels near
the mining towns and the Chinese slave-girls which catered to men near Chinatown of San Francisco.
It is chock-full of photographs, excerpts from old newspaper articles and other interesting side-bars.
Book has been gently read, the pages are clean and bright with light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-228-08
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