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Julia Bulette (1832 – January 19/20, 1867), was an English-born American prostitute and madam in Virginia City, Nevada. After her violent death, she has been described as proprietor of the most elegant and prosperous brothel in the City and various films and books took inspiration of her real or purported biography.〔Vardis Fisher, Opal Laurel Holmes, ''Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the American West'', 1979, p.211, Google Books, Retrieved: 02-01-10.〕 She was said to be the first unmarried white woman to arrive in the mining boomtown following the Comstock Lode silver strike in 1859, but that is highly unlikely; she probably arrived in 1863. Bulette was a popular figure with the miners, and the local firefighters made her an honorary member of ''Virginia Engine Company Number 1''. She was murdered by John Millain, a French drifter and jewel thief, in 1867. == Origins == Julia Bulette, whose real name was Jule, was born in 1832 in London, England of French ancestry, although some historians give her birthplace as Liverpool〔Dee Brown, ''The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West'', Bantam Books, January 1974 edition, p.65.〕 or Mississippi.〔Find a Grave, Julia Bulette〕 At an early age she emigrated with her family to New Orleans, where she later married a man named Smith, but they separated. In about 1852 or 1853, she moved to California where she lived in various places until her arrival in 1859 in Virginia City, Nevada, a mining boomtown since the Comstock Lode silver strike that same year. As she was the only white woman in the area, she became greatly sought after by the miners. She quickly took up prostitution, charging $1000 a night for her services.〔''The Frontier's Fabulous Women'' Life Magazine, 11 May 1959, Retrieved: 02-01-10.〕 Jule, or Julia as she became known, was described as having been a beautiful, tall, and slim brunette with dark eyes.〔Brown, p.64.〕〔Fisher, Holmes, pp.209-210.〕 She was refined in manner with a humorous, witty personality.〔 "Jule" Bulette lived and worked out of a small rented cottage near the corner of D and Union streets in Virginia City's entertainment district. An independent operator, she competed with the fancy brothels, streetwalkers, and hurdy-gurdy girls for meager earnings. Contemporary newspaper accounts of her gruesome murder captured popular imagination. With few details of her life, twentieth-century chroniclers elevated the courtesan to the status of folk heroine, ascribing to her the questionable attributes of wealth, beauty, and social standing. In reality, Bulette was ill and in debt at the time of her death. The brutal attack that ended her life pointed to the violence that surrounded the less fortunate members of Victorian-era society.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julia Bulette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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