Dona Tules: Santa Fe's Courtesan Gambler.

MARY J. STRAW COOK

Publication: University of New Mexico Press, 2007, Albuquerque

First edition. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gold stamping on spine, xiv, 173 pp., preface, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 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 would later gain fame using the name "Tules." As Dona Tules she developed her legendary role as a shrewd and notorious gambling queen and astute businesswoman. Her monte dealings and entertainment houses became legendary throughout the southern Rocky Mountain region. As new in dust jacket.