I met Millie once when I was a youngster, this book was of immense interest to me.
This is a very good story and it is hilarious at times.
Other times it is heart wrenching. Kind of like life.
My only criticism is that the biographer was weak in the delivery of the story.
Nevertheless, I express thanks to Mr. Evans his perseverance in writing this book. I am certain it was not an effortless undertaking.

This book is one that I will save as a gem between gems on my bookshelf.

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.

Ignore the book's subtitle, cover and back cover copy. Madam Millie is not about bordellos or lurid sex detail. It's about a tough, wise, loveable woman. There are a few funny incidents -- as when a cat attacks a delicate portion of a bishop's anatomy -- but today they seem rather tame.
Millie's long life was never ordinary. Orphaned at a young age, she was saved from juvenile justice by Harry S. Truman, then a Kansas City judge. When her sister Florence was diagnosed with tuberculosis, Millie accompanied her to Deming, New Mexico, where she worked as a Harvey Girl at the train station.
Millie entered her new profession to pay her sister's medical bills. And the rest is, literally, history.
Readers will appreciate Madam Millie on two levels: as the biography of a legend and as a social history of women, work and early life in the southwest. Millie entered the business to pay medical bills for her sister. In one night, she would earn more -- and have a pleasanter life -- than she would in the other occupations open to women at the time.
Millie was first and foremost a businesswoman. She built her success not on her looks but on her charisma, executive skills and ability to read people. It was no accident that her houses attracted high-powered clients. She was their equal.
Millie managed bordellos but she also bought and sold real estate. If she had been born forty years later, she would be a player in business or politics -- a very different but equally challenging game.
Readers can debate the morality -- and inevitabilty -- of Millie's "business." Millie herself believed there would always be a need, whether legally met or not. As Millie acknowledged, in the end what she had to sell soon became available for free, thanks to birth control and a changing society.
Millie ran clean houses, with no drugs and no disease, and her contributions to the community must have set a record. There were no rescue agencies back then. She *was* the Red Cross. Her last houses on Hudson Street -- site of the current Silver City post offices -- closed in 1968.
Madam Millie is fast-paced and easy to read. We get a sense of her wit and style, though not a great deal of her thought processes. Then again, Madam Millie does not come across as an introspective gal. She's all action. The pictures help us see history: the "girls" come across as more humorous than provocative.
Give this book to your favorite Silver City newcomer. Buying stamps and mailing a letter will take on a whole new meaning after they read Madam Millie.

For anyone who has ever been to Alaska, this is a must read. I discovered it in a small bookstore in Ketchikan. Good fun. Has the author written anything else?

I loved this book. Wonderful sub plots. Rich characters. A good mix of dark humor and drama. There's not much I can put into words.Want to know anthing more?If so,read it yourself.

As parents of children we begin to learn of the desperate need for time. As grandparents we try to rationalize our use of time. Then when it is to late we learn, as Rob West points out through Richard O'Leary, time lost to any foolishness the human mind can create is just exactly that "LOST" . Make the most of time with your family and there will be no guilt.

This is more of a large pamphlet than a book. Some very nice photos, and quite a bit of useful information. But this more local boosterism than real analysis. It's a choppy collection of brief overviews on widely varied topics.

Anything that you could ever want to know about Ketchikan is here

The words "Proven" and "Precise" made me assume that the data would have a high degree of accuracy. When the 5th waypoint I entered showed up 30 miles East of Bellingham instead of the Gulf Islands I suspected a problem. I thought I had found a typographic error that must have been part of the publishing process. I discovered from the publisher's web site that there is a long list of other errors that you want to be aware of and it didn't include the one I found.

I emailed the author, Kevin Monahan, and was told "The error was one degree which is 60 miles, it comes from misreading the edge of the charts as you move along the latitude line near a full degree mark." In the errata sheet there were many others with the one degree error.

If Kevin is right about the source, then these waypoints were never actually used, nor were then even entered into a charting package, or a plotting GPS. Both units would clearly have shown up errors this large.

Needless to say I am going to be very careful how I use the data. Fortunately I do have a charting GPS, which is how the first error showed up.