Wild West Brothels (Documentary)

The times were synonymous with gunfights, heavy drinking, gun-toting outlaws, sheriffs and solitary men on horseback. The highly mythologised American Frontier saw economic workers traipsing out the Western states of the Union in search of lucrative work. Boom towns and villages that struck gold became magnets for prospectors who would then flock to a town to work on the mine. One such Coloradan town was Cripple Creek where gold was struck in October, 1890. The town’s population increased from a sparse 500 to a bustling 10,000 in just three years. And where men went, women would follow. A girl of "easy virtue" could make good money by keeping the workers company.