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Data de nascimento: 1953
Sexo: male
Locais de residência: American Fork, Utah, USA
Educação: Brigham Young University (MA candidate|English)
Ocupação: writer
poet

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Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West de Michael Rutter

Found at country fair event in eastern Oregon. Interesting stories of the old American west antics.

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Katyefk | outras 2 resenhas | Jun 5, 2022 |

Wild Bunch Women de Michael Rutter

Interesting stories of the women who 'ran' with the Wild Bunch - Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Kid Curry, and others. The writing is a bit boring at times but the stories are interesting.

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wearylibrarian | Jul 31, 2017 |

Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West de Michael Rutter

Upstairs Girls begins with a history of prostitution in the West. The different classes of prostitution are explained; although prostitutes were looked down upon, there were different classes of them. The book ends with short biographies of 14 prostitutes -- these stories include both the madams who owned or managed the houses of prostitution, and the common prostitutes. The book includes a helpful glossary of terms in addition to a bibliography and index. This book is a popular rather than a scholarly history; although there are quotations, the book lacks footnotes/end-notes, and the works some of the quotations are attributed to do not appear in the bibliography.… (mais)

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sallylou61 | outras 2 resenhas | Jan 26, 2016 |

Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild… de Michael Rutter

Despite the rather sensational subtitle this, is a fairly sober account of women sex workers in the west, many of then forced into prostitution by their socio-economic circumstances.

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antiquary | Feb 21, 2015 |

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