Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan

by Max Evans

Book Overview

Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826327826
• ISBN13: 9780826327826
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Wild, Ribald, Funny, Great!

Absolutely great book if you want to read about one of the truly fantastic madams of the recent period, read this! She crowded more 'living' into her life than most people do in 6 lifetimes. She had friends in all the right places, and knew everyone. On her own from the age of 14, she was a quick learner and knew all the 'tricks'. In fact, as she put it, "We turned a good trick". Had houses from Alaska to the bottom of New Mexico. Top notch- 5 stars.

A Hillarious Read!

I found the story of Madam Millie very fascinating and funny at times. I've lived in Silver City for two years and its interesting to read about the town in its heyday. Especially now that I know that the post office is where her infamous whorehouse once sat. The story is told as if Millie was still alive and Max Evans makes her real and not just some unreachable figure in Silver's past. What I enjoyed most was learning about the people who would visit her brothels and I rolled on the floor with laughter at the story of the Mormon bishop.I recommend this book to anyone, especially if you live in or near Silver City, because most of the places she talks about still exisit and it makes you think twice about downtown Silver City.

Thorns and Roses

This book is very well written. It tells the true story life of a famous New Mexico Madam who lived 87 years of her life to its fullest with a lot of tears of joy and sadness. The story would make a terrific movie.

Classic Max!

It is a daring and courageous thing for a university press to produce a book like MADAME MILLIE -- a no-holds barred story of a New Mexico bordello madame -- but any book by that true Westerner and Western writer of proven genius, Max Evans (author of THE ROUNDERS, HI-LO COUNTRY, BLUEFEATHER FELLINI) is a feather in the camp of any publisher. MADAME MILLIE is a perfect wedding of writer-publisher and the book is a masterpiece of truth-telling, told with a novelist's eye for detail and clear-headed dialogue.