Book Recommendation: Red Lights on the Prairies

violetblake

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I recently read a book I think many of you might enjoy. "Red Light on the Prairies" by James H. Gray

http://www.amazon.ca/Red-Lights-Pra...7697/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1344898809&sr=8-3

It's about the history of prostitution in the prairie provinces (AB, SK, MB), in the late 1880s, early 1990s, when the prairie towns were just starting out. Even though it doesn't talk about BC, it's really interesting, and if you like history you'll really love this book. He also touches on prohibition a bit too.

I found it particularly interesting that in some ways we've progressed a lot, but in others they were more progressive back then! lol. It was really neat learning about what society and sex work were like then. Definitely not what they taught us back in school :p
 

kso_wiz

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Kind of reminds me of "Paint your wagon". One of my all-time favorite movies, showing how prostitution helped settle the west.

My favorite scene...

Why, it's terrible! Just terrible!

You'd turn this camp into a boom town! We don't want to do that.

- Soon there'd be another saloon.

- And a bawdy house!

- And another gambling hall!

- And another bawdy house!

- And hotels!

- Property would shoot straight up.

They'd make more money selling old claims than gold.
These men didn't come out here to forge a nation! That's for men with a big dream, with visions of America's greatness.

l'm warning you, if you want to turn us into a dreary boom town metropolis filled with nothing but millionaires, all you gotta do is put up one little, tiny two-storey cathouse!

l say let's put it to a vote, and any man opposed is a traitor!
 

newatit

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Read Moll Flanders, one of the originals. Any chance now that you are finished with the book...or did you get the Kindle copy?
 
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badbadboy

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Thanks for the next book idea!

I just got "Paying for it" and found it was a great read with plenty of background notes in the appendix.

Seeing these two books on my bookshelf will make my friends think I am hooked on SP's :D

Wait, I am already :pound:
 
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