Julia bulette biography
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Julia C. Bulette: Noted Nevada Prostitute
by Johnny Gunn
Nevada’s history is filled with notable women, some, as with Julia C. Bulette, for actions that today are socially questionable, even illegal in some counties. With Bulette, her notoriety began with the beginnings of what is now a state, and with such notoriety come legends, fiction filled legends that are fun to discuss, but have no basis in fact. In 1859, the discovery of a massive ledge of silver that is known today as the Comstock Lode created what is called “the rush to Washoe,” as the area was known. The Comstock Lode is the single largest silver lode ever discovered in North America, and the riches it promised brought legions of wanderers looking to get rich quick.
The rush to Washoe brought the likes of John Mackay, Mark Twain, William Sharon, and Julia C. Bulette to the eastern slope of Mt. Davidson, to do their own particular brand of mining. Men pitched tents, dug coyote holes, slept on the bare ground after searching for “that blue stuff” all day, and slowly, order came to the area and a village of sorts grew into what we call Virginia City today.
In 1860, on his first visit to Virginia City, Adolph Sutro described the town this way. There were “half a dozen stone houses
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Bullette, Julia (d. 1867)
English-born courtesan stop Virginia Gen, Nevada, midst the excavation rush designate the 1850s. Name variations: Julia Bulette. Born prank London, England; died cutback January 20, 1867, spontaneous Virginia Conurbation, Nevada.
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C. C. Haile is a native New Orleanean who currently resides between Atlanta, San Francisco, and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Single mother to three children, two grandchildren, two godchildren, and several foster children, she now shares her life with Fargo-The-Never-Ending-Dog, her cancer care companion - a giant, white Great Pyrenees about whom a book is now in progress. Though trained as an architectural designer, she also holds a B. A. in Art from Kennesaw State Univesity. Writing became her second career during her successful 4-year battle with cancer. Lined up like railroad cars ready to go to print, she has seven completed works including fiction, non-fiction, biography, children's works, and a cookbook. Her focus of late is centered in tales of the Wild West - some true, some embellished, and some just figments of an unharnessed imagination. But her prized work is a memoir finally nearing completion by 2012 - NO PERMANENT STORMS - MY LIFE BEYOND KATRINA.