Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary

"Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface: To the Life and Wild Times of Silver City Millie vii
Introduction: Putting Millie in Her Place: Prostitution in the American West ix
Death without Taxes, First Time in Court, and the Gifts of Greeks
1(18)
Learning to Properly Work Harvey Houses and Hungry-eyed Men
19(16)
The High Sheriff, the Courthouse Laundry, and the Learning of Love's Delights and Agonies
35(10)
On to the Town Called the City of Silver, Great Copper Mines, and the Hudson Street Houses
45(6)
Making Sure a Lost Love Stayed That Way, and the Beginning of the Final Approach to Full Madamhood
51(4)
Screwing the Most Powerful, Showing Naked Kindness to Her Elders, Finishing Her Bedroom Studies in Style
55(10)
A Growing String of Houses, the Story of the Bishop's Balls, and a Moral Tale of Tricky Whores
65(26)
First Love, Tender and Savage Months, Lost Wisdom Found Again
91(6)
The Desecration of Love, the Violence of Mutual Jealousy, a Double Loss to Change a Great Life Forever
97(8)
The Storm before the Lull, the Adventure of Several Lifetimes, and So Many Fast Changes of Scenery That Flowers Went Missing
105(10)
The Great Vacation, the Great Oil Boom, Hooking Up with a Texas Ranger, and More Fun Than She Could Laugh At
115(10)
A Wartime Marriage and an Explosive Celebration
125(16)
Heading North Looking for Room to Expand the Art of Love, Ben's Beginning Jealousy, and the Beginning of Wyoming Enchantment for Millie
141(4)
At Long Last, the Expansion of Whorehouses, and the Diminishing of a Marriage Made in Both Heaven and Hell
145(12)
Brutal Business of Several Kinds
157(12)
North to Alaska, Sharing Ideas with Eleanor Roosevelt, and Turning the Mayor and His Council Inside Out
169(14)
South Out of Alaska and the Great Escape Caper
183(8)
The Terrible Brawl, Thoughts of Murder, and a Painful Settlement of Sorts
191(8)
A New Kind of Trouble, a New Kind of Peace, Getting Ready to Arrive
199(6)
Finally Meeting the Man of Peace, and Brothel Bothers and Loyalties
205(14)
Sundry Whorehouse Happenings, Some of a Sexual Nature or Against Nature, If Preferred
219(16)
A Court Trial of Redemption, Exposure of the Law to the Law, and Justice for Millie Served
235(26)
The True Art of Giving
261(6)
Battles of Many Kinds Confronted
267(6)
Entry of the FBI, the Scattering of Millie's Precious Whores, and the Counting Up of Gains and Losses for All
273(18)
Afterglow 291(18)
Epilogue 309

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