Introduction: Sinful cities, 1863-1919
Prologue: Madeleine : a self-made woman, 1894
The summer women of Helena, 1867
Butte, the black heart of Montana, 1877
Miles City and the Wild West, 1880
Last of the silver years, 1887
The celestial sex trade, 1900
Respectable purple paths, 1900
The beginning of the end, 1911
Epilogue: The wages of sin
Major players: The women and men who made the most of a wild frontier
Time line: From the brothels to the Congress.
