Denver’s Hardscrabble Beginning [Denver] is infested with hordes of villains of the blackest dye, murderers, thieves, and blacklegs of all kinds. It appears to be an asylum for renegades and outlaws from surrounding regions. Nearly every day we hear of depredations being committed . . .1 Denver’s origins are murky and unsettled. While other cities […]
Randi Samuelson-Brown
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Old West brothel worker searches for love, and a life worth living in Denver’s early days
Colorado Authors League finalist in Genre Fiction “The Beaten Territory” finds Annie Ryan running a second-rate brothel in 1890s Denver with an eye toward expansion. Annie’s fortunes at the brothel turn on her niece Pearl, a pretty young girl swept up in Denver’s underworld of jealousy, booze, and vice–until murder stalks the good-time girls and […]