book question

Has anyone out there read Anne M. Butler's Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90 (U of Illinois P, 1987)? I'm currently on p. 38 and am seriously wondering if there's going to be sufficient pay-off to reward slogging through the unsupported generalizations, the implicit but unexamined moral framework imposed by the author, the failure to define terms or produce a sufficiently theorized conceptual model ...

I'm coming perilously close to answering my own question here.

The book was worth purchasing ($6 at Half-Price Books) for the photographs alone, but do I have any hope of the text getting better, or should I just chalk this one up as "pioneering work in neglected field" and let go?

bone key reviews, department of underwhelm

joonscribble, exlibris76, and rivkat are all, to varying degrees, underwhelmed by The Bone Key.

oursin, on the other hand, says very nice things.

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On the other other hand, The Mirador made OF Blog of the Fallen's Best of 2007 Countdown, and muneraven has a lovely post about introducing people you love to things that you love and having them click. It is purest lagniappe that the primary example used is A Companion to Wolves.