George And Maggie And The Red Light Saloon
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Author | : Rod Cook |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2003-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781462088812 |
This is the true story of George and Maggie Wood, a young couple who in 1880, in a fledgling cowtown that sprang up from the dust of the old Chisholm Trail, built the "largest dance house in Kansas". [read that-cat house.] In a formidable two-month trek through the dusty plains of Texas and the "Indian Nations," brash young cowboys drove the longhorns to the railhead at the Kansas state line. There they emerged at Caldwell, Kansas; primed for celebration in that wide-open cowtown fondly known to them as "The Queen of the Border." Wild, wooly and dangerous, in its futile effort to hold a lid on the cowboys' rampant and often times violent revelry, the town ran through 15 marshals in the six year period of the cattle drives between 1879 and 1885. Continuously besieged by murder and depravation, the town was locked in a love-hate alliance with the many dens that catered to the roughshod instincts of the hell-raising cowboys. Festering at the heart of this perpetual bedlam was the number-one attraction of the Border Queen; George and Maggie's Red Light Saloon, the wellspring of murder and violence; and the epitome of debauchery and just plain nasty wickedness.
Author | : Jan MacKell Collins |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2022-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493066161 |
Often overlooked, disregarded, or hidden from historical accounts due to its racy connotations, the prostitution industry was one of the most important factors in the development of the American West. The “oldest profession” fueled the economies of camps, towns, and cities as they grew.Sex workers, from common prostitutes to reigning madams such as Anna Wilson, Maggie Wood, and Big Ann Wynne, defied social norms to make sure their hometowns, and they themselves, were successful. Their reasons for entering the life varied, from women who could find no other way to make money to those who desired independence and wealth. In return they were ostracized, criticized, and subject to fines, jail, disease, drug addiction, violence, and unwanted pregnancies. While their success stories are many, others failed in their endeavors, their names buried with them when they died. Behind Brothel Doors chronicles the history of the nineteenth-century sex work industry in the Great Plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
Author | : Rod Cook |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2003-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0595294073 |
This is the true story of George and Maggie Wood, a young couple who in 1880, in a fledgling cowtown that sprang up from the dust of the old Chisholm Trail, built the "largest dance house in Kansas". [read that -- cat house.] In a formidable two-month trek through the dusty plains of Texas and the "Indian Nations," brash young cowboys drove the longhorns to the railhead at the Kansas state line. There they emerged at Caldwell, Kansas; primed for celebration in that wide-open cowtown fondly known to them as "The Queen of the Border." Wild, wooly and dangerous, in its futile effort to hold a lid on the cowboys' rampant and often times violent revelry, the town ran through 15 marshals in the six year period of the cattle drives between 1879 and 1885. Continuously besieged by murder and depravation, the town was locked in a love-hate alliance with the many dens that catered to the roughshod instincts of the hell-raising cowboys. Festering at the heart of this perpetual bedlam was the number-one attraction of the Border Queen; George and Maggie's Red Light Saloon, the wellspring of murder and violence; and the epitome of debauchery and just plain nasty wickedness.
Author | : Nyle H. Miller |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2003-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806135304 |
"... collection of material" from "newspapers, legal records, letters, and diaries, contemporary" sources. Includes material on "Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, and Dodge City"--Back cover.
Author | : D. Ray Wilson |
Publisher | : Crossroads International |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1994-09 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780916445409 |
Author | : Stephen Crane |
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Michael Coveney |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2015-12-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250081483 |
A brand-new biography of Maggie Smith, everyone's favorite dowager countess.
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Total Pages | : 1930 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Wisconsin |
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Author | : Maggie Nelson |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1555979289 |
Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969. Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reopened; a new suspect would be arrested and tried on the basis of a DNA match. Over the months that followed, Nelson found herself attending the trial with her mother and reflecting anew on the aura of dread and fear that hung over her family and childhood--an aura that derived not only from the terrible facts of her aunt's murder but also from her own complicated journey through sisterhood, daughterhood, and girlhood. The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy.
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Kansas |
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