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Item specifics

Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No ...
Binding
Paperback
Product Group
Book
Weight
1 lbs
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780826327833

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
ISBN-10
0826327834
ISBN-13
9780826327833
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30272581

Product Key Features

Book Title
Madam Millie : Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Women, General, Prostitution & Sex Trade, Business
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Max Evans
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
306.74/2/092 B
Synopsis
Madam Millie contains sordid details and frank language that will make many readers blush. It is unvarnished language, as recorded directly from Millie by Max Evans over a period of almost twenty years. It presents a complete picture of the business of prostitution as it was practiced in the west from the late 1920s to the mid 1970s, told by the most successful madam in the business., Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. Millie broke the mold in so many ways, and yet her life's story of survival was not unlike that of thousands of women who went West only to find that their most valuable assets were their physical beauty and their personality. Petite at five feet tall with piercing blue eyes, Millie captured men's attention by her very essence and her unmistakable joie de vivre . Born to Italian immigrant parents near Kansas City, she and her sister were orphaned early and separated from each other. Millie learned hard lessons on the streets, but she never gave up and she vowed to protect and support her ailing older sister. Caught in a domestic squabble in her foster home, Millie wound up in juvenile court with Harry Truman as her judge. This would be only the first of many brushes in her life with prominent politicians. When physicians diagnosed her sister with tuberculosis and recommended she move West to a Catholic home in Deming, New Mexico, Millie moved with her. Expenses ran high and after a brief stint waiting tables as a Harvey Girl, Millie found that her meager tips could easily be augmented by turning tricks. Thus, out of financial need and devotion to her sister, Mildred Cusey turned to a life of prostitution and a career at which she soon excelled and became both rich and famous.

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