As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
One often hears of the good hearted whore, but from the reality of the description of female kind of the lower orders in gambling, entertaining and whoring, they were a group of women hardened in the worst of possible ways.
The young women deflowered of virtue were simply base and the old women were cruel to the point of evil. Each appeared to be a form of sociopath.
In Deadwood City, in the Dakota Black Hills, the following description is the accurate description of what type was the border creatures.
"I visited half a dozen " hells, *' where I noticed some Chicago toughs, all engaged in the noble art of faro or some other thimble-rigging devilment. In that lively time Dead wood "sports" killed off a man or two every night.
Between them and the Sioux it was a hard matter to keep the population of the place up to the maximum standard.
Women, as in Cheyenne, acted as " dealers " at many of the tables, and more resembled incarnate fiends than did their vulture like male associates. I observed that decided brunettes or decided blondes were more engaged in evil works than their negative fellow-women.
Most of the miners would prefer playing "faro" or "monte" with men, for the women were generally old and unscrupulous hands, whose female subtlety made them paramount in all the devices of cheating and theft. I observed one of them—a brunette, either French or Italian, something of the Latin order anyway with some attention.
She had a once-handsome face, which crime had hardened into an expression of cruelty. Her eye glittered like that of a rattlesnake and she raked in the gold-dust or chips " with hands whose long white fingers, sharp at the ends, reminded, one of a harpy's talons.
Every gambler appeared to play for gold dust. Nobody took greenbacks, and the gold-scales were in constant requisition. They allowed twenty dollars for every ounce of gold, and placed greenbacks at the regular discount."
Finerty, John F. (John Frederick), 1846-1908
Deadwood in the year of 1876 AD in the year of our Lord, had a murder rate of 60 per month. If the numbers held, that would be 720 per year for one Dakota city.
It is the fact of society, when women are no longer the civilizing influence over society, to keep males in check, then the result is a town, a county, a state, a region, a nation which is nothing but evil incarnate.
Yes fiction always has the whores pretty, the saloon girls attractive and the gamblers comely, but that is not the case, nor has it ever been. People flushed to hard lives, become hardened, and women always turn out the most degenerate of all.
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