Native Arizonian Jan MacKell Collins is an author and historian whose work focuses on prostitution history and other interesting aspects of the West. Author of over two thousand magazine articles, her writing appears in Colorado Gambler Magazine, Kiva Magazine and True West Magazine. Her 2009 book Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains was nominated for a WILLA award by Women Writing the West in 2011 she was a co-nominee for the 2010 anthology, Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West.

Arizona remained a raw, rather uncivilized territory before it became one of the last states to enter the Union. Few towns exemplify this more than Prescott. Untamed land lured those who saw an opportunity to prosper, including a number of shady ladies. A