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