Item #41014 Doña Tules. Santa Fe's Courtesan and Gambler. Mary J. Straw Cook.

Doña Tules. Santa Fe's Courtesan and Gambler.

Albuquerque: Univ. New Mexico Press, (2007). xiv, 173 pp. Illus. with 26 b/w reproductions and photos. 8vo. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new. Item #41014

"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."

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