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The western frontier was rugged, harsh and, often times, not too friendly for women. With few jobs available to them, other than teachers, clerks, mothers and wives, some of them chose to use their womanly charms in order to make a living.  These women, or “soiled doves”, could be seen working the saloons and bordellos throughout the American west.

Some entered this life not of their own free will but were subjected to it by family members as a means of raising much needed cash to pay for food, liquor or, in some of the worst cases, the basic necessities of life.