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Entertaining Women - Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West (Paperback)
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Entertaining Women - Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West (Paperback)
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The Gold Rush West was dotted with mining boomtowns and bustling
new cities that sprang up overnight around strikes. Fortunes were
made and lost daily, lawlessness was commonplace, and gambling
dens, saloons, brothels, and dance halls thrived, but after a while
the miners and merchants began to long for more polished
amusements. Soon, theatres popped up in tents and then auditoriums
and playhouses were built where operas, arias, and Shakespeare were
performed by brave actors, dancers, singers, and daredevils who
were lured by the call of the West. Many of the most popular women
entertainers of the mid-and late-1800s performed in the boomtowns
that dotted the West, drawn by the same desire for riches that took
miners and merchants there, and bringing a variety of talents and
programs. Though they were sometimes literally showered with gold,
their personal lives were often marked by tragedy and unhappiness.
These stories reveal the entertaining side, but also some of the
hardship of the American West.
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