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Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
In February 1881, desperate women in a North Dakota town waged war against soiled doves that stood out on the streets enticing their husbands or fiancés inside their businesses. They made signs and marched in front of the “wicked women’s” parlors and gave interviews to the local newspapers expressing their displeasure with the madams and their bawdy establishments. “Pure women cannot understand how wicked women rejoice in mashing hearts they do not care for; in ruining young men’s lives for a petty triumph,” one overwrought wife and mother or three told a reporter for the Bismark Tribune. “We want to see an end to such enticements and maintain a faithful home,” the woman added. “If the wicked women are allowed to stay we are, all of us, doomed.”
To learn about wicked women on the wild frontier read
Wicked Women: Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West.
National Book Launch on February 21, 2015 from Noon to 2 p.m. at the
Nevada County Railroad Museum in Nevada City, California.
