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The madams of San Francisco : an irreverent history of the city by the Golden Gate
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- Creator
- Curt Gentry
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1964
- Physical Details
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- xii, 323 pages ; 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00575818
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [316]-323).
- Part One. El Dorado 1848-1859. The myth of the fair but frail Amazons -- Neither wives, widows, nor maids -- The Countess, Irene McCready, and the respectables -- Ah Toy: the girl in the green silk pantaloons -- The lottery of the golden ingots -- Belle Cora: the beautiful bad -- Belle and the vigilantes -- Belle and the scandal sheets -- Part Two. More gilt and red plush 1860-1949. Madame Moustache: pioneer of the parlor house circuit -- Dolly Adams: the original girl in the fishbowl -- Maud Nelson Fair: W.R. Hearst misses a train -- Jessie Hayman: San Francisco's other fire -- Tessie Wall: "I shot him 'cause I love him, G- D- him!" -- Maude Spencer and Reggie Gamble: bright lights go out tonight -- Dolly Fine: where's the lady in red? -- Sally Stanford: madame councilwoman