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Hell's Belles Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman
by Secrest, Clark
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- ISBN-13: 9780870816338
- ISBN: 0870816330
- Publisher: University Press of Colorado
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This newly updated and revised edition of HELL'S BELLES takes the reader on a soundly researched, well-documented, and amusing journey back to the early days of Denver. Clark Secrest details the evolution of Denver's prostitution, the gambling, the drug addicts, and the corrupt politicians and police who, palms outstretched, allowed it all to happen. Also included in HELL'S BELLES is a biography of one of Denver's original police officers, Sam Howe, upon whose crime studies the book is based. The popular veneer of Denver's present-day Market Street -- its fancy bars, posh restaurants, and Coors Field -- is stripped away to reveal the street's former incarnation: a mecca of loose morals entrenched in prostitution, liquor, and money. Hell's Belles examines the neglected topics of vice and crime in Denver and utilises a unique and invaluable historic source -- the scrapbooks of Detective Sam Howe.Secrest, Clark is the author of 'Hell's Belles Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman' with ISBN 9780870816338 and ISBN 0870816330.
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