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This is the sad life of a Wild West saloon girl

Saloon girls were some of the most visible women in Wild West towns, but their lives were far from glamorous. Many worked long hours dancing, serving drinks, and entertaining customers in rough ...
Most images of an Old West saloon are barroom brawls and gunfire, with scantily clad “soiled doves” hanging around. Not according to archeologist and historian Homer Thiel, who has extensively ...
It was the American Frontier, known also as the “Old West,” or the “Wild West” – a place that encompassed the folklore, geography and culture associated with the wave of American expansion in mainland ...
Step back in time with this captivating collection of photographs revealing the raw, unfiltered essence of the American Old West. Forget Hollywood myths—these images capture the dusty saloons of ...