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Did She or Didn't She?
True West
|June 2019
Deadwood’s Dora DuFran is credited with coining the word “cathouse.”
The people who knew her, and the historians s who love her, consider Madam Dora DuFran one of the most lucrative businesswomen in South Dakota . Her legendary brothels in Deadwood , Belle Fourche and Rapid City made the lady famous. But was the enigmatic madam really the first painted lady to utter the word “cathouse,” known today as a reference to a brothel?
This story is from the June 2019 edition of True West.
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