These are the fascinating photographs of brothels and the women who worked there in the Old American West. The rare pictures that were taken around the turn of the 19th century in the state of Colorado show 'soiled doves', girls in white dresses who came to boom towns such as Denver to keep the working men company. Other photos feature the infamous bordellos, showing madams, men, women, maids and even babies having a time of it in the Wild West. The highly mythicized American Frontier saw economic workers traipsing out the Western states of the Union in search of lucrative work. Boom town and villages that struck gold became magnets for prospectors who would then flock to a town to work on the mine. One such Coloradan town was Cripple Creek where gold was struck in October, 1890. The town's population increased from a sparse five hundred to a bustling ten thousand in just three years. Treaties with native American nations, military conquest, the building of farms, ranches, and towns, the marking of trails and digging of mines all drew men westwards to the Frontier for work. Almost without exception, pioneer mining camps, boomtowns and whistles-stops became home to at least one or two prostitutes - if not a roaring red light district. Prostitution contributed heavily to town economies in the way of business licenses, fees and fines. A number of red light districts evolved into the social centres of their communities. It was not uncommon for bordellos in Western towns to operate openly, without the stigma of East Coast cities. Gambling and prostitution were central to life in these western towns, and only later, as the female population increased, reformers moved in, and other civilizing influences arrived - did prostitution become less blatant and less commonplace. One photograph taken in Cripple Creek shows a bordello called The Club. It's a quintessential Old West sin palace with musicians, the madam, housemaids and the ladies that wore white brothel gowns hanging out of the upstairs windows. The white gown was the uniform for a prostitutes in the Old West. Despite their appearance, these girls were tough, many of them would engage in robbing clients by poisoning their beer. Pictured: Unidentified Denver prostitutes, Colorado, circa 1890. So-called 'soiled doves', girls wearing white dresses, came to boom towns such as Denver to keep the working men company. Workers from across America came through Denver while traversing the US Left: Famous Old West Madam Jennie Rogers who operated in Denver. Right: Mattie Silks. Mattie operated in Denver and other towns in Colorado. Prostitution contributed heavily to town economies in the way of business licenses, fees and fines. A number of red light districts evolved into the social centres of their communities Ed Chase's Palace Theater in Denver. This establishment was situated outside of the designated brothel district, but it was the first place prospectors and travellers would go to from the train station for feminine diversions and jollification. It hosted racy stage shows, fancy buffets, gambling and booze. The Palace, as it was known, was famous throughout the Old West The Club in the gold rush town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, circa 1892. The picture shows a quintessential Old West sin palace with musicians, the madam (bottom right, striped dress), housemaids and the ladies that wore white brothel gowns hanging out of the upstairs windows. There is also a baby in a pram, bottom left. Gold was struck in Cripple Creek in October, 1890. The town's population increased from a sparse five hundred to a bustling ten thousand in just three years Left: Belle Binard's brothel on the Denver Row, circa 1885. This establishment was one of the finer houses. Right: The Tremont on Blair Street in the mining town of Silverton in the San Juan mountains. It was a combination of a saloon and a brothel, with the booze downstairs and the girls upstairs Two women wearing brothel gown are seen in the facade of 2130 Market Street, Denver, 1905. As a group of three men also walk down the filthy street. The street was the notorious hedonistic area of Denver in the 19th and 20th century, known simply as The Row The interior of Madam Mamie Darling's brothel in Market Street, Denver, date unknown. As was customary across the USA, women of organised prostitution dressed in white smocks called brothel gowns. Darling is the woman in the dark dress, and the man seated on the floor beside her would have been the piano player, security or a pimp A demimondaine in the customary white brothel gown and another girl in a dark hat, far left, greet passersby along Market Street, Denver, 1905. If the man didn't stop he could be taunted, or she might even snatch off his hat, throwing it inside so he must enter the brothel to retrieve it. Demimondaines as they are known, were not above robbery by murder so clients had to be careful Emma Lillis Quigley before (left) and after (right) her transformation from outwardly respectable citizen to a woman of 'easy virtue', circa 1880s. After this picture was taken of her, business increased proportionally. It was said she wore $6000 in jewels during afternoon strolls. She had came from a Nebraska farm to the big city of Denver. But Quigley soon discovered that gentlemen would eagerly pay for certain favours, so she abandoned her outward respectabilityAll rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility