Madam Millie : Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan

Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9. 315 pages. Here are the sordid details and frank language that will make many readers blush. It is unvarnished language, as recorded directly from Millie by Max Evans over a period of almost twenty years. It presents a complete pickdture of the business of prostitution as it was practiced in the West form the late 1920's to the mid-1970s, told by the most successful madam in the business. `The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe, a prostitute with innumerabl paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. Millie broke the mold in so many ways, and yet life's story of survival was not unlike that of thousands of women who went West only to find that their most valuable assets were their physical beauty and their personality. Born to Italian immigrant parents she and her sister were orphaned early and separated from each other. Caught in a domestic squablle in her foster home, Millie wound up in a juvenile courth with Harry Truman as her judge. This would be only the first of many brushes in her life with prominent politicians. Max Evans is an Albuquerque novelist whose best-known works are Bluefeather Fellini, The Hi-Lo Country and The Rounders. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.