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Gilded Girls, by JoAnn Chartier and Chris Enss |
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Women Entertainers of the Old West
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: TwoDot an Imprint of Falcon (June 01, 2003)
ISBN: 0762726792
Price: $10.95
 From Catherine Hayes, the "Irish prima donna," and Maude Adams, "the
most popular actress in America," to the legendary Sarah Bernhardt,
Gilded Girls profiles fourteen of the liveliest, wildest, and most
talented female entertainers ever to light up the boards of the western
frontier. You'll meet "the Jersey Lily," who was wildly admired by men
as various Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady, and Judge Roy
Bean; Mrs. Leslie Carter, a scandal-plagued society women who became a
famous actress as an act of revenge against her patrician ex-husband;
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French-Creole beauty known as the "Frenzy of Frisco" who took up the
Zionist and feminist causes in between her daring acting roles; and
"Klondike Kate," a flame-haired entertainer who took Alaska's gold rush
country by storm but suffered a very public heartbreak.
Some of the
fascinating women are renowned even to this day, others are remembered
only in the pages of history, but all personified the daring, colorful,
and independent spirit of the Old West.
Read more about Author Chris Enss >>>
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Local Books at Random
 John Sanbrook's debut work is a fascinating biography of the lives and times of his parents, Jack and Elizabeth Sanbrook. "It all began at the turn of the twentieth century. Times were hard in the United Kingdom."
John "Jack" William Sanbrook was born in March of 1907; his father deserted wife and son soon after. Young Jack had a thirst for knowledge, but poverty denied him his education and class discrimination severely limited his prospects. In 1929, fate lent a hand; the Shanghai Municipal Police Force needed officers and Jack answered the call. He would discover a true love of justice and the law in a land filled with beauty, danger, and luxuries he could never have enjoyed in his native England. In time, Elizabeth would become his wife and they would begin their family. In 1942, with the Japanese occupation of the International Settlement in Shanghai, the Sanbrooks’ idyllic life came to a close. "The family had been caught up like rats in a trap. Their lives were now in hostile hands."
From the early years of Jack's work with the Shanghai Municipal Police, through the family's World War II years in the concentration camp, later work for the War Crimes Commission in the jungles of Borneo, and the Sanbrooks’ eventual emigration to America, In My Father's Time opens a window on the dramatic changes that made the world we see today.
As the voices from that era fall silent one by one, this book is a welcome and valuable record of a vanished world. "It is my parent's story. One that I felt needed to be told."
This reader would agree.
Review written by DJ Nold, the former Copy Editor of The Business Journal of Yuba and Sutter Counties, and author of two published fantasy-adventure novels, Raven's Fate and True Companions .
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