Welcome to the Victorian West
Sherry Monahan delves into the history of the Victorian Wild West.
Sherry Monahan has been researching and writing about the Victorian West since 1995. Visit her websites to learn how the Victorians adapted to the western frontier. You can purchase her books, map, Tombstone Walking Guide, and gift items.
Learn about these things:
Victorian Recipes
Victorian Etiquette
Gambling
Saloons
Tombstone Arizona
Old Saloon Games like Faro and Monte
Victorian Saloon Drinks
About Sherry & Sherry's Websites
Her third book, The Wicked West: Boozers, Cruisers, Gamblers, and More, was released in October 2005.
Tombstone's Treasure: Silver Mines & Golden Saloons, was released in March 2007 by the University of New Mexico Press. She is currently working on several other projects, including a non-fiction book about Victorian Women in the Wild West and another on pioneer women cooking along the emigrant trails.
Sherry has also created an 1882 map of Tombstone, AZ and a Self-Guided Walking Tour of Tombstone. She also created a faro game for everyone to enjoy the old western saloon game at home.
Sherry is also the 2007 VP-Marketing for Women Writing the West.
In the fall 2007, Sherry will be appearing in a episode of Lost Worlds - The Real Deadwood, as one of the co-investigators/hosts. She has also appeared on the History Channel in the Investigating History (Wyatt Earp) and Wild West Tech (Gambling and Gold Rush) series.
She is also a contributing editor for True West magazine and has also modeled for the magazine. Other publications include the Tombstone Times, Tombstone Tumbleweed, Tombstone Epitaph, Arizona Highways, and other freelance works. She was a contributor to The Best of the Best of Arizona and Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work.
Sherry Monahan Books at Amazon.com
For autograhed books, please order from Sherry's websites
The Wicked West: Boozers, Cruisers, Gamblers, and More
The Wicked West provides the reader with a no-nonsense accounting of the "sinful" ways of the Wild West, in an era when drinking, smoking, gambling, drugs, and prostitution were the order of the day.~Midwest Book Review
Amazon Price: $12.44 (as of 10/13/2008)
Tombstone's Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons
Monahan shares true tales about Tombstone's mining and gambling history and describes a different time and locale where wealthy businesspeople and rugged miners rubbed elbows at the bar and gambled side by side.
It is both shocking and enlightening to learn just how sophisticated Tombstone really was when the Earps, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and Curly Bill strode the boardwalks.
~Bob Boze Bell, True West magazine
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 10/13/2008)
Pikes Peak: Adventurers, Communities and Lifestyles (CO) (Images of America)
Captured here in almost 200 vintage images are the lives, trials, adventures, and leisures of some of the Peak's early pioneers and visitors, covering a span of almost 60 years.
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 10/13/2008)
Taste of Tombstone: A Hearty Helping of History
This book reveals the sophisticated atmosphere unrivaled west of New Orleans and outside San Francisco during the late 1880s. Monahans detailed history of the people, restaurants, and hotels describes life in Tombstone, where six-shooters were on most mens hips, and miner picks were a common sight.
Restaurants varied from simple fare, to exotic creations, and included trendy French cooking, along with fresh oysters. Monahan painstakingly cataloged the essence of how the West Was Won by presenting facts about real people and places that shaped the most famous town in Arizona. Included are 140 recipes from the era with actual photos.
Amazon Price: (as of 10/13/2008)
An Author's Journal by Sherry Monahan
Read About the Daily Life of an Author
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byMy Favorites Links
These are some places that I like to visit.
Women Writing the West
For women who write about the west and those who w more...2 points
The History Channel - Home Page
Search under Wild West Tech for Gambling or Gold R more...1 point
True West Magazine welcomes you to the Old West
Home page for True West Magazine, also called True more...0 points
Tombstone Times - Tombstone's History and Information paper ...
Tombstone Arizona has a new voice, The Tombstone T more...0 points
HAUNTED SALOON - Live Webcast Every Tuesday Night 10 PM (est) 7 PM ...
"Live&amp more...0 points
Western Writers of America Official Home Page
Western Writers of America, Inc., was founded in 1 more...0 points
Sherry's interview on the Haunted Saloon
Learn about Sherry and Tombstone's Treasure
Let Me Know What You Think
|
WorldTravelers916
great lens, loads of awesome information! Posted July 17, 2008 |
|
vnrozier
A very interesting look at something I know little about. Posted July 05, 2007 |
|
Margaret_Schaut
Interesting lens! I've lensrolled it to Michelangelo's David. Wonderful work. Posted February 19, 2007 |
|
Nathanville
My fascination in America during the Victorian era is as a direct result of my great great grandfather, keeping newspaper cuttings from his 3 visits to America between 1844-57. I've now transcribed them to my web site for the benefit of others. So I appreciate how rewarding it must be for you. Posted February 09, 2007 |
Great job, Sherry. You always have a class act and these sites just confirm it. Well done.
Posted February 05, 2007
