While prostitution was common in Wild West-era towns, Wallace didn’t just tolerate the profession, it embraced it for more than 100 years. Illegal brothels openly flourished as late as 1991. In the new nonfiction book “Selling Sex in the Silver Valley: A Business Doing Pleasure,”
Locations of Wallace brothels
Sanborn fire insurance maps of wallace through the years, with brothel locations in purple:
1891
1892
1896
1901
1905
1908-1912
1927
1930-1946
1950s