"In the above may be seen two rows of 'Cribs' facing each other on a narrow alley — a door and a window opening from a little room that will soon contain the women who are to be protected by the police/' wrote the Deseret News, September 23,1908, of the stockade.
Red Lights in Zion: Salt Lake City's Stockade, 1908-11 BY J O H N S. M C C O R M I C K
1 HE HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION IN THE United States is not a frivolous subject, though it is often treated that way, and in recent years a number of historians have given it the serious treatment it deserves. They have focused particularly on the midwestern and western United States, writing, for example, about prostitution in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Saint Louis, Kansas, Helena, Nevada's Comstock, San Diego, and San Francisco.1 Dr. McCormick is research manager for the U t a h State Historical Society library and the author of a history of Salt Lake City. ^ o h n C. Burnham, " T h e Social Evil O r d i n a n c e : A Social Experiment in Nineteenth Century St. Louis," Missouri Historical Society Bulletin 27 (April 1971) : 203—17; Carol Leonard
