| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860–1930. By Jan MacKell. Foreword by Thomas J. Noel. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xviii + 310 pp. Illustrations, appendices, glossary, notes, reading list, index. $24.95.)

I can count sixteen existing substantive book-length published histories of prostitution in the American West alone. Only one—concerning Alaska—is a statewide study; hence the importance of the present project. This book has its quirks, beginning with the title: Brothels and Bordellos are the same thing, and the subtitle should be Prostitution in El Paso and Teller Counties, Colorado, with Tidbits from Elsewhere. Particularly slighted is Leadville, brothel capital of the developing West, which must settle for a cumulative four of these 264 pages of text. By contrast, little Colorado City, an early Colorado Springs suburb, gets fifty-six pages of copy. (The author explains that Colorado City data was "easier to access" [p. 125].) Too many eminently eligible communities are allocated but one page, or, if lucky, two. Other towns are ignored altogether: Where is Black Hawk? Montrose? Fairplay? Glenwood Springs? Grand Junction? Aspen deserves only one paragraph? The author could have discovered this missing data, had she looked further.

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