Mining the Miners: Prostitution and Clairvoyants in Colorado’s Wild West

Join author Randi Samuelson-Brown for a lively discussion of prostitution, bad whiskey recipes, casual (and otherwise) drug use, and what life was like in the mining camps. Some of the shady ladies “sisters in the shadows” were the clairvoyants, who didn’t shy away from consulted on all matters – including mining claims and where to drill. Colorado had plenty of gold and silver to go around! Let’s take a look into some of the more notorious ways to extract those riches without ever once digging or panning.

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