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Breaking Hearts Since 1884

The rooms they weren't allowed in In the boomtowns of the Gold Rush, the saloon was everything: bank, theater, newsroom and bar, usually in one room. Respectable women were not allowed inside. A few saloons made room for them, a family parlor, a discreet ladies' entrance, but the message was the same: not at the bar, not among the men. In some territories the ban was law. The women who did make it inside were working. They sang, they rode, they dealt the cards and held the room, and the men came for exactly that. History filed them under dismissive nicknames and moved on, rarely recording what they earned. It should have. The real story follows the money.

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