Montana Madams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Montana Madams write by Nann Parrett. This book was released on 2017-01-13. Montana Madams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Men flooded to the Montana frontier for gold, furs, rich land, and jobs. Women followed, but their options were more limited. Here are stories of women who made a desperate choice, turning the law of supply and demand to their advantage. Many eked out a meager but independent existience; grit and business acumen brought remarkable wealth and influence—even respectability—to a few. From Alzada to Yaak, these enterprising women shaped Montana communities, in some cases helping to fund social programs and public education.
Wanton West
Wanton West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wanton West write by Lael Morgan. This book was released on 2011-06-01. Wanton West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the time of the gold rush to the election of the first woman to the U.S. Congress, Wanton West brings to life the women of the West's wildest region: Montana, famous for its lawlessness, boomtowns, and America's largest red-light districts. Prostitutes and entrepreneurs--like Chicago Joe, Madame Mustache, and Highkicker—flocked to Montana to make their own money, gamble, drink, and raise hell just like men. Moralists wrote them off as “soiled doves,” yet a surprising number prospered, flaunting their freedom and banking ten times more than their “respectable” sisters. A lively read providing new insights into women's struggle for equality, Wanton West is a refreshingly objective exploration of a freewheeling society and a re-creation of an unforgettable era in history.
Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams
Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams write by Martha Kohl. This book was released on 2016. Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sheriff Garfield had just been elected to a second term in 1920 when he was fatally shot. His wife Ruth, a ranching woman with a young son, set aside her grief to serve out her husband's term. She was Montana's first female sheriff and served two years. Stories like Ruth Garfield's fill the pages of Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams: Montana Women's Stories. The women featured in this book range from late eighteenth-century Indian women warriors to twenty-first century Blackfeet banker Elouise Cobell. They span geography--from the western Montana women who worked for the Forest Service, to Miles City doctor Sadie Lindeberg. And they span ideology--from the members of the Montana Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, who led the fight for laws banning segregation in public accommodations, to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. With grit and foresight, these women shaped Montana.
Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains
Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains write by Jan MacKell Collins. This book was released on 2020-02-24. Good Time Girls of the Rocky Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. 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 hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.
Montana 1889
Montana 1889 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Montana 1889 write by Ken Egan. This book was released on 2023-08-02. Montana 1889 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Montana became the 41st state in 1889, an old pinoeer lamented, “Now she's gone to hell,” but most Montanans embraced statehood as the inevitable culmination of one of the most rapid and dramatic transformations in United States history. Only twenty-five years after becoming a territory, Montana was profoundly different: the buffalo slaughtered and gone, the Indian wars fought and ended, the tribal nations confined to reservations, cattle and sheep raised by the tens of thousands, Butte exploded into a rich, wide-open town, and railroads built to link the once remote land with the world. Montana 1889 tells the many stories of this overwhelming transformation by entering into the lives, emotions, and decisions of diverse peoples cooperating and competing on this contested ground. As in Ken Egan’s highly acclaimed Montana 1864, these stories are told month by month, deftly showing the flow and friction of events and the unfolding destinies of individuals and nations.
