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The Old West was filled with successful
entrepeneurs engaged in a wide range of activities - including
prostitution (which was generally called 'vagrancy' by police at the
time). One of the most successful and well known madams in old
Texas was Fannie Porter, who operated in San Antonio. Fannie was
born in England, but arrived in the US when she was a baby. She
opened her bordello at what is now Durango and San
Saba Streets in 1883 and she advertised her 'boarding house' widely in
a
number of city directories until 1902. Opulent furnishings and
decor were her signature and she hosted the wealthy and well known of
Texas, including Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and the Wild
Bunch. When moral reform started to rage in San Antonio around
1901, Fannie closed her house and disappeared from history. Some say
she retired a wealthy woman, some that she married a wealthy man.
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