Terre Haute's Notorious Red Light District

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Home to uproarious saloons, swindling gambling dens and thriving brothels. Terre Haute's infamous West End was so wild that the Chicago Tribune called it "the scene of a hundred all night carousings." Pimps, pickpockets and con men roamed the crowded streets where the legendary madam Edith Brown's pleasure palace was the crown jewel of brothels. More than a mere den of iniquity, the West End was also a community where people could put bickering differences aside and pull together to help their neighbors. It wasn't just a place for seedy enterprise, but rather a place for stores, cafés and homes. Historian Tim Crumrin presents the first complete history of this legendary area and separates myth from reality to reveal the very human side of the West End--Back cover.