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The reader of this book will come away with a better understanding of the desolate and forlorn bordello girl, who, too often, had no place else to go. Many were gentle and kind hearted. Take Madame Pauline, who on hearing of a desperate family in dire straits, provided a house for the family and a job for the father. Her generosity wasn’t known until her death. In the west, the bawdy house girls filled an obvious need, or they wouldn’t have survived as long as they did. Many girls left the trade as soon as they could, usually by marriage.
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About the Author:
Alton Pryor has been a writer for magazines, newspapers, and wire services for fifty years. He worked for United Press International in their Sacramento Bureau, handling both printed press as well as radio news. He then moved to Salinas, where he worked for the Salinas Californian daily newspaper for five years as editor of Western Ranch and Home, a weekend supplement. In 1963, he joined California Farmer magazine where he worked as a field editor for 27 years. When that magazine was sold, the new owners forced him into temporary retirement. He gained an intense interest in California and Western history after selling a number of short 500-word articles on Southern California history. In his research of these stories, he kept finding other stories that interested him but did not fit the particular publication for whom he was then writing. He collected both facts and ideas as he researched, and finally turned them into his first book, “Little Known Tales in California History.” Alton Pryor is now the author of fourteen books, “Little Known Tales in California History,” “Classic Tales in California History,” “Those Wild and Lusty Gold Camps,” “California’s Hidden Gold,” “Outlaws and Gunslingers,” “Historic California, It’s Colorful Names and How It Got Them,” “Jonathan’s Red Apple Tree,” “Publish It Yourself: Five Easy Steps to Getting Your Book into Print,” “Little Known Tales in Nevada History,” “Little Known Tales in Hawaii History,” “The Lawmen,” “Those Wild and Lusty Gold Camps,” and “The Bawdy House Girls of the Old West.” He is a graduate of California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism.
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- PublisherCreatespace Independent Pub
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 149489565X
- ISBN 13 9781494895655
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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