I love the contrast of the b/w graves with the girl in color! History comes alive by teasing your audience with a little splash of a color provided by a beautiful show girl! The showgirl captivates your audience by drawing them forward into the history and importance of each of these famous individuals from the West. Great compositions! The pictures are awesome! Keep of the great work!

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Celia Anne Mattie Blaylock a former prostitute, had arrived in Dodge City with Earp. She became Earp's companion until 1882. Earp resigned from the Dodge City police force on September 9, 1878 and headed to Las Vegas, New Mexico, with Blaylock.

The formal accusation of Doc's involvement was started by Doc's companion Mary Katherine "Big Nose Kate" Horon. Kate had left St. Louis and made her way to Dodge City, Kansas, where she was known as "Kate Elder." It is alleged that she and another woman were fined for working as "sporting women" in a sporting house run by Bessie Earp, wife of James Earp.

Josephine Sarah Marcus, called Sadie by her contemporaries and the woman who would be Earp's third wife. They were together until Wyatt died. An attractive woman, it's known for sure that she worked as an actress and sometimes speculated that she was a prostitute as well.

As a fan of the old west, a Wyoming native, and contributor to the “scandal” as it were, I have something to say;

I am a model in one and or more of those pictures, complete w/ minimal showing of cleavage, void of view of the belly button, and suited with dance hose. I have also been a showgirl and after graduation I worked two summers with wilderness survival trainers the “Skinner Brothers in Pinedale, Wyoming.

Historically speaking women of questionable character and the old west go hand in hand.

Starting in the 30’s

The Singing Vagabond 1935 starring Gene Autry; Teenage runaway Lettie Morgan (Rutherford) stows away with a group of showgirls route to California.

The 40’s, “Buffalo Bill” ( The movie) 1944

Where it was considered smarter to emulate Cody by perpetuating the legend rather than debunking the Buffalo Bill image with cold, hard facts.

The 90’s

Tombstone

Former lawman Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) decides to retire in the growing town of Tombstone with his two brothers. There, they meet Wyatt's old friend Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), a gunslinger with tuberculosis. The Earp’s plan to take it easy and make some money on a drinking/gambling establishment. A saucy showgirl (Dana Delany) has caught the married Wyatt's eye, causing even more trouble for him.

2000

"Dangerous Women, Wayward Men and the Wild, Wild West – a retrospective of art by Phil Strang from 2004-2009" (101 pieces) in the Illini Union Art Gallery

To present.

Many outlaws in the west belonged to gangs. Jesse and Frank James fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. They served in guerrilla bands which provided training for their postwar outlaw careers. Following the war’s end, the James brothers formed a gang which terrorized banks. Although portrayed as romantic heroes, the James Gang was nothing more than a group of thugs and outlaws out for themselves.

Regarding “Moral Dilemma”, are the patrons of these magazines missing the mark? This appears to be little more than an assassination of character in present day of the women that are representing the “TRUE SPIRIT” of the “Women of the West”.

The most prevalent characters as well as outlaws, employed, entertained and even married prostitutes and showgirls.

To say that it is indecent top have such pictures in present day would have been equivalent to telling these wives they could not be present at their husband’s grave sights. Lucky they are dead as they may very well be keen to shoot the naysayers to having the showgirls represent them..