Yampa Valley Sin Circuit: Historic Red-Light Districts of Routt and Moffat Counties
Historic Red-Light Districts of Routt and Moffat Counties
Published on 25. February 2014
111 pages
978-1-62584-622-8 (ISBN)
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Far from the rest of civilization, but with plenty of money and booze close at hand, Steamboat Springs and the surrounding towns of Oak Creek, Yampa, Hayden and Craig were filled with shady characters with even shadier pasts. Many of the saloonkeepers in these areas opened multiple enterprises, allowing the various "soiled doves" of the region to move from town to town and bar to bar every few months to keep business fresh or to escape entanglements that had gone sour. Historian Laurel Watson unearths the seamy history of Yampa Valley's early red-light districts and the people who called them home.
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Laurel Watson is the curator at the Hayden Heritage Center Museum. She serves on the Board of Directors for Historic Routt County and is also an advisor for Colorado Heritage Tourism. Watson earned her MA in American History in 2010. The historic Brooklyn neighborhood and red light district was the subject of her thesis and was later subject of a piece she wrote for Steamboat Magazine's summer 2012 edition. Her work has also been published in the Yampa Valley Voice.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Valley of Dreams
- 1. Northwest Colorado
- Part II. A Town Divided
- 2. Steamboat Springs
- 3. Steamboat Springs Red-Light District: Brooklyn
- 4. Entertainment Brooklyn Style
- 5. Brooklyn Saloonkeepers
- 6. The Inmates of Brooklyn
- 7. Stories of Brooklyn
- Part III. Gateway to the Flattops and Routt County
- 8. Yampa
- 9. The Ward Family
- Part IV. Yampa Valley Gold
- 10. Oak Creek
- 11. Tom Piercen: Boss Man of Oak Creek
- 12. Suicide of a Saloon Man
- 13. The Reidys
- 14. The Ray Murder
- 15. William Doyle
- 16. Hickory Flats
- Part V. Bear River Colony
- 17. Hayden
- 18. Shootout at Jones Saloon
- Part VI. Cowboy Country
- 19. Craig
- 20. Ledford: Saloon Man, Lawman
- 21. Mike Smith
- Part VII. Dry Times
- 22. The Temperance Movement and the End of an Era
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
