Pistols, Petticoats & Poker: The Real Lottie Deno by Jan Devereaux, High-Lonesome Books, Silver City, N.M., 2009, $25. It is human nature to romanticize bygone times, to regard our forebears’ hardscrabble lives through the clouded pane of Old West myth. Few notions have persisted as long as that of the happy hooker, the saloon girl …
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