Indeed, the city of Boulder seems to have been rife with shameful cases involving its prostitutes. A news item in told of two young ladies, on their way from a prayer meeting, who were accosted by a pimp from the row. Eventually, the law began imposing restrictions and rules on the prostitution industry.
In , the mining town of Caribou in Boulder County voted to outlaw gamblers and loose women from their new community. Most surprisingly the law was easy to uphold, perhaps because Caribou was located at an elevation of nearly ten thousand feet, subjected to hundred-mile-an-hour winds, and suffered terrible snowstorms with drifts that could top twenty-five feet in height. Prostitutes plying their trade within the community of six hundred were easy to spot, and besides, there was no railroad to Caribou.
From there, the girls could service those who made clandestine trips not only from Caribou but also the nearby mining towns of Nederland, Blackhawk and Central City.
By now, prostitution had been present in Colorado for at least 20 years. Denver prostitute Lizzie Greer was one of these. By Lizzie had lost all of her money and had turned to alcohol to drown her sorrows. The Denver Republican noted she had been living for years in back alleys and along river fronts, purchasing liquor when she could and eating out of the garbage bins of local restaurants. Lizzie was last noted as being found sleeping in a lumber yard and taken to the County Hospital.
For every harlot who met her end, there were others to take her place. In , there were approximately prostitutes working in Denver.
