Author: Cook, Mary J. Straw
Title: Doña Tules. Santa Fe's Courtesan and Gambler
Description: Albuquerque, Univ. New Mexico Press, 2007. First edition. Cloth with gilt titles. xiv, 173 pp. Illus. with 26 b/w reproductions and photos. 8vo. "Gertrudis Barcelo, New Mexico's celebrated gambler and demimonde of the 1830s and 1840s, was born at the turn of the ninteenth century in Mexico. Young Gertrudis who would later gain fame using the name 'Tules,' discovered how to manipulate men, reading their body language and analyzing their gambling habits. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.

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