Interspersed throughout the vast, open landscape of the Wild West were settlements, towns, and cities full of saloons, brothels, boarding houses, and other establishments where pleasure was for sale.

Saloon girls were some of the most visible women in Wild West towns, but their lives were far from glamorous. Many worked long hours dancing, serving drinks, and entertaining customers in rough ...

It was the American Frontier, known also as the “Old West,” or the “Wild West” – a place that encompassed the folklore, geography and culture associated with the wave of American expansion in mainland ...

Frontier cowboys, coal miners, buffalo hunters, prostitutes, saloon keepers and lawmen did dangerous, dirty work in the frontier West. Dynamite, ...

Few places embody the history of Hopland quite like the town’s historic pub. Long before it became the birthplace of California’s first brewpub, this property reflected the town’s changing identity — ...