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Hell's Belles: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver, With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman Revised Edition [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 392 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 272x216x20 mm, kaal: 1059 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2002
  • Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado
  • ISBN-10: 0870816330
  • ISBN-13: 9780870816338
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 392 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 272x216x20 mm, kaal: 1059 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2002
  • Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado
  • ISBN-10: 0870816330
  • ISBN-13: 9780870816338
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This updated and revised edition of Hell's Belles takes the reader on a soundly researched, well-documented, and amusing journey back to the early days of Denver. Clark Secrest details the evolution of Denver's prostitution, the gambling, the drug addicts, and the corrupt politicians and police who, palms outstretched, allowed it all to happen. Also included in Hell's Belles is a biography of one of Denver's original police officers, Sam Howe, upon whose crime studies the book is based.

The popular veneer of Denver's present-day Market Street - its fancy bars, posh restaurants, and Coors Field - is stripped away to reveal the street's former incarnation: a mecca of loose morals entrenched in prostitution, liquor, and money. Hell's Belles examines the neglected topics of vice and crime in Denver and utilizes a unique and invaluable historic source - the scrapbooks of Detective Sam Howe.

Clark Secrest retired in 2001 as an editor with the Colorado Historical Society. There he researched and wrote numerous articles for the society's quarterly journal Colorado Heritage.



This updated and revised edition of Hell's Belles takes the reader on a soundly researched, well-documented, and amusing journey back to the early days of Denver.

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"...loaded with spicy information...engaging, lively and informative, highly professional but written for popular consumption." Boulder Daily Camera "...the definitive work on prostitution in the West, not to mention one of the best-written, most enjoyable reads in Western history." The Denver Post

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Notes to the Reader xix
Part I: The Policeman 1(54)
Meet Sam Howe
3(14)
A Frontier Detective
17(38)
Part II: The Indulgences 55(262)
``Hordes of Villains and the Wages of Sin''
57(16)
``She's Pretty Near Dead Now''
73(28)
``Her House Is the Way to Hell''
101(28)
The Unlucky Pathway of Life
129(26)
The Recording Angel Gave Them One White Mark
155(26)
``Here She Is. Now Give Me the Five Dollars.''
181(28)
Mattie Silks and Jennie Rogers: Queens of the Denver Row
209(38)
``I Have No One to Love Me''
247(44)
``All Ze French Ladies Vill Be Glad''
291(10)
``Mayor Speer Was a Wonderful Man. He Kept Market Street Open.''
301(10)
That Is Good
311(6)
Appendix A: The Howe Methodology 317(2)
Appendix B: Denver Criminal Activity, 1916-1929 319(6)
Appendix C: A Market Street Prostitution Census 325(4)
Bibliography 329(8)
Index 337
Clark Secrest retired in 2001 as an editor with the Colorado Historical Society. There he researched and wrote numerous articles for the society's quarterly journal Colorado Heritage.