Big Alice & the Battle of the Bordellos

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, ain’t that what they say? But what happens when it’s also a woman doing the scorning? And what happens if that hell is just El Paso, Texas? One helluva girl fight, that’s what! Join me as we take a look at Old West madam Fat Alice Abbot and the fight she got into with rival brothel owner, Etta Clark. This episode has a little bit of everything. Listener discretion advised! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west: https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me: https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest What’s a “pubic arch”?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_arch Clash of the Mad Madams | True West Magazine: https://truewestmagazine.com/clash-of-the-mad-madams/ Big Nose George: https://www.wildwestextra.com/big-nose-george-wyoming-bandit/ The Battle of Beecher Island: https://www.wildwestextra.com/40-the-battle-of-beecher-island/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	If you can, I want you to close your eyes and try to imagine an old West gunfight. What are you
0:35.3	envisioning? Two guys facing off in the middle of the street, high noon fingers twitching at the
0:40.7	butts with their holstered six shooters.
0:43.0	Maybe you're picturing a desperate fight on the prairie.
0:45.8	The last stand is scared yet determined men dig in, counting their ammunition and violence,
0:50.7	sell their lives dearly.
0:52.5	Or maybe you've got a more realistic idea.
0:55.1	A smoky crowded saloon, as deadly drunks clear leather, began blasting away at themselves
0:59.9	and everybody else, just mere feet apart.
1:03.4	I think it's safe to assume that whatever the scenario, you're probably just imagining
1:07.6	men, right?
1:09.2	And for good reason.
1:10.2	I mean, there weren't really any female
1:12.0	gunfighters, at least not that I'm aware of. You had your lady bandits like Bell Star and
1:17.3	Ann Dunn, sure, but they weren't exactly out there stacking bodies like John Wesley Harden.
1:22.3	Point I'm trying to make is you've probably never heard of two females squaring off against
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