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Chip-Wrecked In Las Vegas:
This entry is a riotous collection of vignettes about Nevada and Las Vegas.
Peppered with nearly 90 photographs - old and new - Chip-Wrecked reads
something like a gigantic Reader's Digest of Las Vegas and Nevada. In 70
spellbinding chapters, you'll read about strange events that have occurred
inside casinos, why video poker is taking over the industry, scams and shams
through the ages, the rise and fall of the mighty Dunes Hotel and Casino, the
inside story about Las Vegas's tourist traps and who's who and what they do.
You'll see actual photos of early gambling, Bugsy Siege l... in life and death,
inside Hoover Dam - before it filled with water, Reno's famous Virginia Street
in the 1930's, craps shooters in the Las Vegas Club in 1947, Louis Prima singing
at the Sahara Lounge in 1956, casino surveillance through one-way mirrors, Pappy
Smith in Harold's Club with old-time slots, Double Mills slots being played for
$10,000, Howard Hughes and other young casino owners and opening night at the
Sands Casino in 1952. Chip-Wrecked In Las Vegas contains 400 pages, measures 5
1/2" X 8 1/2", is perfect bound, and has a colorful, plastic-coated
soft cover.
Mustang's
Last Ride, The
Closure of the Mustang Ranch Bordello,
by 
Soiled
Doves (Prostitution In The Early Years): This stunning book reveals the dark
world of 19th century western prostitution and provides a touching insight into
the lives of the ladies of the night. Soiled Doves makes no attempt to
cleanse the soiled dove, often known as the "fancy", "fallen
angel" or "sporting" ladies of the night. Caught in a web over
which they had no control, most ended up in the oldest profession simply because
there was nothing else they could do. Prostitution flourished in the United
States with the opening of the American frontier as thousands of young, healthy
men left their homes and families behind in search of precious metals, land and
adventure. Since there were few women on the frontier (estimates indicate one
woman for every 50 men), the first to arrive were ladies of easy virtue, along
with gamblers, gun slingers, miners, brawlers, shopkeepers and farmers. Solid
Doves takes you to the great American frontier where the red light districts
were as much a part of the early West as the mine tailings, canvas shacks and
garish saloons that dotted the landscape. The book's many rare, period
photographs further enhance this highly recommended, scholarly monograph. Soiled
Doves contains 176 pages, a glossary, bibliography and measures 6" x
9", and is perfect bound with a full-color, plastic-coated soft cover.