The Yampa Valley Sin Circuit : Historic Red-Light Districts of Routt and Moffat Counties.

ISBN:

9781625846228

Title:

Author:

Watson, Laurel.

Personal Author:

Watson, Laurel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 pages)

Contents:

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Valley of Dreams -- 1. Northwest Colorado -- Part II. A Town Divided -- 2. Steamboat Springs -- 3. Steamboat Springs Red-Light District: Brooklyn -- 4. Entertainment Brooklyn Style -- 5. Brooklyn Saloonkeepers -- 6. The Inmates of Brooklyn -- 7. Stories of Brooklyn -- Part III. Gateway to the Flattops and Routt County -- 8. Yampa -- 9. The Ward Family -- Part IV. Yampa Valley Gold -- 10. Oak Creek -- 11. Tom Piercen: Boss Man of Oak Creek -- 12. Suicide of a Saloon Man -- 13. The Reidys -- 14. The Ray Murder -- 15. William Doyle -- 16. Hickory Flats -- Part V. Bear River Colony -- 17. Hayden -- 18. Shootout at Jones Saloon -- Part VI. Cowboy Country -- 19. Craig -- 20. Ledford: Saloon Man, Lawman -- 21. Mike Smith -- Part VII. Dry Times -- 22. The Temperance Movement and the End of an Era -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Red-light districts--Colorado--History.

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Colorado--History.

Yampa River Valley (Colo.)--History.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Chicago :

The History Press,

2014.

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Summary

Far from the rest of civilization, but with plenty of money and booze close at hand, Steamboat Springs and the surrounding towns of Oak Creek, Yampa, Hayden and Craig were filled with shady characters with even shadier pasts. Many of the saloonkeepers in these areas opened multiple enterprises, allowing the various "soiled doves" of the region to move from town to town and bar to bar every few months to keep business fresh or to escape entanglements that had gone sour. Historian Laurel Watson unearths the seamy history of Yampa Valley's early red-light districts and the people who called them home.