In 1886 El Paso, Texas, prostitutes Alice Abbot and Etta Clark shot it out with each other, and Alice was hit in the “public arch” (as one newspaper reported it) but survived the bullet wound. In 1867 in Virginia City, Nev., high-class French prostitute Julia Bulette was strangled to death in her palatial bagnio by three drifters and when John Millais, one of the killers, was captured in 1868, many of the mining town’s most respectable women treated him like a hero right up to the day he was hanged on April 24, 1869. One thing they also had in common was that they were often beaten, stabbed or shot by out-of-control drunks and psychopaths, sometimes even by their female competition. But in the real West, prostitutes were usually coarse women who looked bad, smelled bad, smoked cigarettes, drank too much and spent years “plying their wares.” In Western movies these shady ladies of the Old West have usually been portrayed as pretty women who also sing and dance and, because of recent bad luck, have temporarily turned to the oldest profession in order to survive. They were called sporting women, soiled doves, crib girls, fallen angels, calico queens, prairie flowers, daughters of sin, doves of the roost, painted cats, horizontal workers, ceiling experts and many other unflattering names.
In a world where drunk men and competing crib girls could get mean. The Spur Trigger Guns of the Bordellos Were Handy Self-Protection Weapons Close
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