The Oldest Profession in Texas

Waco's Legal Red-Light District

• Author(s): James Pylant, Sherri Knight,
• Publisher: Jacobus Books
• Pages: 381
• ISBN_10: 0984185712
  ISBN_13: 9780984185719
  
• Language: en
• Categories: True Crime / Historical , History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) , Social Science / Prostitution & Sex Trade ,

Description:... From 1869 to 1918 more than 1,200 women lived as prostitutes in Waco, Texas. When the city legalized its red-light district, floozies flocked to Waco where saloons and bordellos boomed. The Oldest Profession in Texas: Waco’s Legal Red-Light District examines the city’s complex stance on prostitution, debunks myths, and unveils (for the first time) the true identities of several early day madams.