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Madam Millie - Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan (Paperback)
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Madam Millie - Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 860
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Mildred Clark Cusey was a prostitute, 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 mould 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 meagre
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. The book 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 20 years. It presents a complete picture of the
business of prostitution as it was practised in the West from the
late 1920s to the mid 1970s, told by the most successful madam in
the business.
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