Author: Rod Cook
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462088812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
George and Maggie and the Red Light Saloon
Author: Rod Cook
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462088812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462088812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
Behind Brothel Doors
Author: Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493066161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493066161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Why the West Was Wild
Author: Nyle H. Miller
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
"... 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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
"... 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.
Kansas Historical Tour Guide
Author: D. Ray Wilson
Publisher: Crossroads International
ISBN: 9780916445409
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: Crossroads International
ISBN: 9780916445409
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Maggie, Together with George's Mother and The Blue Hotel
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Maggie Smith
Author: Michael Coveney
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250081483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A brand-new biography of Maggie Smith, everyone's favorite dowager countess.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250081483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A brand-new biography of Maggie Smith, everyone's favorite dowager countess.
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Wisconsin State Gazetteer and Business Directory
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
Book Description
Kansas Heritage
Author:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Temple Bar
Author: George Augustus Sala
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls
Author: Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826333438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826333438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.