Most images of an Old West saloon are barroom brawls and gunfire, with scantily clad “soiled doves” hanging around. Not according to archeologist and historian Homer Thiel, who has extensively ...

Interspersed throughout the vast, open landscape of the Wild West were settlements, towns, and cities full of saloons, brothels, boarding houses, and other establishments where pleasure was for sale.

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For as long as I can remember, I have loved portrayals of the Old West. My favorites are the ones where the actors convincingly channel its spirit and the saloon embodies classic towns of the era. In ...