Publisher's blurb: Soiled doves, saloon girls, ladies of the evening, and many other names have been used to describe practitioners of what is known as the oldest profession: prostitution. In the wild west they can be found in all kinds of bordellos, brothels, houses of ill repute, opium dens, hotels, tents, and saloons. Their lives were colorful if not socially acceptable, as they struggled to find a place and a home in the new frontier.