The Yampa Valley Sin Circuit: Historic Red-Light Districts of Routt and Moffat Counties
Author | : Laurel Watson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781625846228 |
ISBN-13 | : 1625846223 |
Rating | : 4/5 (223 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Yampa Valley Sin Circuit: Historic Red-Light Districts of Routt and Moffat Counties written by Laurel Watson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.