Saloon girls were some of the most visible women in Wild West towns, but their lives were far from glamorous. Many worked long hours dancing, serving drinks, and entertaining customers in rough ...

SALADO, Texas — Long before protests had hashtags or boycotts went viral, a group of determined women in Salado shut down the town’s only saloon using nothing more than knitting needles, patience and ...

Most images of an Old West saloon are barroom brawls and gunfire, with scantily clad “soiled doves” hanging around. Not according to archeologist and historian Homer Thiel, who has extensively ...