Open Secret - The Story of Deadwood''s Most Notorious Bordellos

A colorful history of the famous Soiled Doves of Deadwood, South Dakota, during the heyday of the wild west.

About the author

Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Best Scholarly Nonfiction Book. Enss's most recent works are The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont "The Fifth Marx Brother," and The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier.

Summary

A colorful history of the famous Soiled Doves of Deadwood, South Dakota, during the heyday of the wild west.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Enss, Enss Chris
• Assisted by: Jewell Geri (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781493061464
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-6146-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South Dakota, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls