Caxton Press Presents Our Ladies of tenderloin -- Colorado Legend in Lace

Our Ladies of the Tenderloin is a unique look at life in the oldest profession in early day Colorado. Linda Wommack tells the story of the women who made the night life come alive and brought excitement to the new frontier. Wommack puts the women of the “hog ranches” of the eastern plains and the houses of the Rocky Mountain mining camps into their rightful place in history — as pioneers. The author brings Colorado’s soiled doves to life through in-depth research and never-before-seen photographs. History and folklore are wrestled apart so readers can focus on the prostitute as a member of frontier society, rather than a mere footnote in accounts of the wild west.

Our Ladies of the Tenderloin
Colorado Legend in Lace			*CAXTON PRESS*


	By Linda Wommack ISBN 0-87004-444-3 paperback, 6x9, 250 pages, $16.95	Our Ladies of the Tenderloin is a unique look at life in the oldest profession in early day Colorado. Linda Wommack tells the story of the women who made the night life come alive and brought excitement to the new frontier. Wommack puts the women of the “hog ranches” of the eastern plains and the houses of the Rocky Mountain mining camps into their rightful place in history — as pioneers. The author brings Colorado’s soiled doves to life through in-depth research and never-before-seen photographs. History and folklore are wrestled apart so readers can focus on the prostitute as a member of frontier society, rather than a mere footnote in accounts of the wild west.
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		Linda Wommack once again brings Colorado's colorful pioneer past to life in this richly-detailed account of nineteenth-century prostitution. She recreates the underside of boom town life with its colorful cast of sometimes, heroic, often tragic, and always fascinating characters. Here is grassroots history at its best. --Paul Andrew Hutton, author of Phil Sheridan and his Army, Professor of History at The University of New Mexico and past president of the Western Writers of America.


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