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One chill January night in 1867, a Virginia City prostitute was strangled to death in her bed. The murderer was caught and hanged in front of a crowd of thousands, and the citizens of the Comstock considered the matter closed. More than 150 years later, the murder of Julia Bulette has become a local legend. The man accused, John Millain, was suspected of killing before, but there would be no justice for those victims. Reduced to vague mentions in newspaper articles, little was left to tie their unsolved murders to that of Julia's. Did John Millain leave a trail of tragedy that stretched from San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood to Julia's untimely end in Virginia City? Author and award-winning journalist Robin Flinchum searches for the truth behind a string of murders in two of the richest cities in the early American West.

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From the award-winning journalist and author of Red Light Women of Death Valley ""Here, a real woman escapes the bonds of myth and emerges, living and walking the streets of Virginia City. Flinchum presents important insights into the life and death of a true legend of the West."" -- Ronald M. James, author of Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West ""Robin Flinchum rescues Julia Bulette from the margins of Nevada's frontier mythology. Writing with the restraint of a historian and the curiosity of a cultural critic, Flinchum reveals a figure far more complex--and far more human--than the familiar legends allow."" -- Mark Sedenquist, editor, RoadTrip America ""Well written and descriptive--like being there--Flinchum puts the reader in the places, and with the people she writes about."" -- Janice Oberding, author of the Haunted Nevada Series and others

From the award-winning journalist and author of Red Light Women of Death Valley

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Robin Flinchum is an award-winning journalist and historian whose work explores crime, myth, and memory in the early American West. Trained in journalism at San Francisco State University, she brings investigative rigor and narrative precision to nineteenth-century sources. She is the author of Red Light Women of Death Valley, the first book to recover the lives of women long erased from the region's mining-camp history. Her research has reshaped the historical record and inspired permanent museum exhibits in California and Nevada.

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