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Gilded Girls : Women Entertainers of the Old West Paperback - 2003
by Chris Enss; JoAnn Chartier
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- Title Gilded Girls : Women Entertainers of the Old West
- Author Chris Enss; JoAnn Chartier
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Globe Pequot Press, The, Guilford, CT
- Date 2003
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0762726792I2N00
- ISBN 9780762726790 / 0762726792
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.34 x 0.56 in (22.76 x 16.10 x 1.42 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women entertainers - West (U.S.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003048053
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From Catherine Hayes, the "Irish prima donna," and Maude Adams, "the most popular actress in America," to the legendary Sarah Bernhardt, Gilded Girls profiles fourteen of the liveliest, wildest, and most talented female entertainers ever to light up the boards of the western frontier. You'll meet "the Jersey Lily," who was wildly admired by men as various Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady, and Judge Roy Bean; Mrs. Leslie Carter, a scandal-plagued society women who became a famous actress as an act of revenge against her patrician ex-husband; a French-Creole beauty known as the "Frenzy of Frisco" who took up the Zionist and feminist causes in between her daring acting roles; and "Klondike Kate," a flame-haired entertainer who took Alaska's gold rush country by storm but suffered a very public heartbreak. Some of the fascinating women are renowned even to this day, others are remembered only in the pages of history, but all personified the daring, colorful, and independent spirit of the Old West.
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- Library Journal, 05/01/2003, Page 116