The idea was too wild -- even for the Wild West. A psychologist in Nevada's state prison system wanted to build a theme park that would represent an 1880s mining camp. As Bill Mace Knapp envisioned it, the place would be old-timey, with a general store, saloon, gold mine and . . . oh, yes, a brothel.
Prostitution is legal in some Nevada counties, and Knapp figured he could help the state's economy by bringing it into the mainstream. His ladies of the evening would look more like Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke than street-hardened hookers. To attract investors, he was offering...
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