Some "local color" by a favorite New Mexican author
". . .the life
of "Madam Millie" is the saga of the West as it played itself out in bedrooms
and back alleys."--Los Angeles Times
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.
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By Max Evans, the author of Bluefeather Fellini, The Rounders, The Hi Lo
Country, and twenty-two other books, lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He
received the Owen Wister Award for lifelong contributions to the field of
western literature from the Western Writers of America.
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Published by University of New Mexico Press, March 1, 2004
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Book measures 6" x 9" (15 x 23 cm)
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Paperback, 344 pages. With 79 halftones
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Shipping weight: 1.9 lbs. (0.87 Kg)
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