Hell's Belles Summary
The book Hell's Belles covers the prostitution, vice, and crime in the early development of Denver. When someone thinks they are going to read a history book about any topic someone gets the idea that they will get just the most important points of history. Well this book dose the opposite it tells the story on how there were it most tell the story that is not talked about in the history books it about gambling, murder, and prostitution that were happening in the West and as well in Denver. The book does not tell on the way it might have been but it tells the story like it way the things that were really happening. It tells the reader on how women were used for prostitution and how there were not that many options of women at that point in time. The poor educated women were allowed into few jobs that were not prostitution in that time of history other women were not so lucky they were forced by men to go into prostitution there were women that would be drugged and raped. There was a person in the book that I found interesting Black Ide was a Denver prostitute that was arrested for killing a woman with a baseball bat for murdering a man
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The author wanted to let the read know what are going to be the big points he is go to base the book on by letting the reader know that those topics are not topic that they talk about in any other history books or in school on how form those events that were happening in early Denver. One of the main point is prostitution now of the cover of the book people get to know that this book well most likely talk about prostitution from the beginning to the end. Once the reader is done with this book they well get to know that life was not that easy for women in any way that was known if that women had some type of education than they would have a decent job not like that other women that were just force to be prostitute the only way to get their
The author wanted to let the read know what are going to be the big points he is go to base the book on by letting the reader know that those topics are not topic that they talk about in any other history books or in school on how form those events that were happening in early Denver. One of the main point is prostitution now of the cover of the book people get to know that this book well most likely talk about prostitution from the beginning to the end. Once the reader is done with this book they well get to know that life was not that easy for women in any way that was known if that women had some type of education than they would have a decent job not like that other women that were just force to be prostitute the only way to get their