Episode Title: The Red Light of the Silver Valley
For nearly a century, the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho operated one of the most openly tolerated red-light districts in the American West — not in secret, not underground, but woven directly into the fabric of the community.
In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we step back into the boomtown chaos of the 1890s, when silver ruled the Silver Valley and Avenue A became home to a line of brothels that would define Wallace’s identity for generations.
We explore:
• The rise of the district during the mining boom
• The powerful madams who shaped it — from Maggie “Molly B’Dam” Hall to Gracie Edwards and Effie Rogan 
• The scandals that made national headlines
• The unspoken agreements between law enforcement and business owners
• The 1988 federal raid that shut it down overnight
• And the lingering hauntings reported inside the former Oasis Bordello
This isn’t just a story about prostitution. It’s about survival, economics, gender, power, and a town that chose practicality over pretense. It’s about how an entire community normalized something the rest of the country pretended didn’t exist — and what happened when the outside world finally forced its hand.
And yes… we’ll talk about the ghosts.
If you’ve ever wondered how a red-light district could operate for nearly 100 years in plain sight — this is the episode.
Because in Wallace, the mines ran deep.
And so did the secrets.
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🎙️ Shadows in the Pines
In the pines, the truth never stays buried.
