Editing Wallace, Idaho (section)

=== Famous for vice ===
[[File:Wallace ID - bordello museum.jpg|thumb|upright|The Oasis Bordello Museum is a former brothel]]

A mining community with a "work hard, play hard" attitude, Wallace became well known for a permissive approach toward drinking, gambling and decriminalized prostitution.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/miningtownphotog0000hart/page/131|title=Mining town : the photographic record of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d'Alenes|last1=Hart|first1=Patricia|last2=Nelson|first2=Ivar|date=1984|publisher=University of Washington Press|via=Internet Archive|isbn=0295961058|location=Seattle|pages=[https://archive.org/details/miningtownphotog0000hart/page/131 131–144]|oclc=10998780|url-access=registration}}</ref> From 1884 to 1991, illegal yet regulated brothel-based sex work openly flourished because locals believed that sex work prevented rape and bolstered the economy, so long as it was regulated and confined to the northeastern part of town.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Selling sex in the Silver Valley : A Business Doing Pleasure|last=Branstetter|first=Heather|publisher=The History Press|year=2017|isbn=9781467136563|location=Charleston, SC|pages=13–21, 81–104|oclc=990267731}}</ref> Throughout the rest of the country, progressive era politics drove red-light districts underground, but madams in Wallace enjoyed unprecedented status as influential businesswomen, community leaders, and philanthropists.<ref name=":0" /> Between 1940 and 1960, for example, an average of 30 to 60 women came into town to work in one of the five well-established brothels.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Selling sex in the Silver Valley : A Business Doing Pleasure|last=Branstetter|first=Heather|publisher=The History Press|year=2017|isbn=9781467136563|location=Charleston, SC|pages=90|oclc=990267731}}</ref>