Hell's Belles, Revised Edition: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver, With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman

Hell's Belles, Revised Edition: Prostitution, Vice, and Crime in Early Denver, With a Biography of Sam Howe, Frontier Lawman by Secrest, Clark. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780870816338.

This updated and revised edition of Hells Belles takes the reader on a soundly researched, well-documented, and amusing journey back to the early days of Denver. Clark Secrest details the evolution of Denvers prostitution, the gambling, the drug addicts, and the corrupt politicians and police who, palms outstretched, allowed it all to happen. Also included in Hells Belles is a biography of one of Denvers original police officers, Sam Howe, upon whose crime studies the book is based. The popular veneer of Denvers present-day Market Street - its fancy bars, posh restaurants, and Coors Field - is stripped away to reveal the streets former incarnation: a mecca of loose morals entrenched in prostitution, liquor, and money. Hells Belles examines the neglected topics of vice and crime in Denver and utilizes a unique and invaluable historic source - the scrapbooks of Detective Sam Howe.