# Dixie Lee — Cimarron character guide

> Dixie Lee in Cimarron by Edna Ferber.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dixie, The harlot Dixie Lee

**First appearance:** 0008-v

## Snapshot

The iron-handed madam of Osage's red brick mansion, whose plush salon becomes a strange clubhouse for lonely plainsmen and a scandal the town's wives cannot stop discussing.

## Who they are

Dixie Lee rules her brothel with rules so rigid they are almost prim, offering hundreds of wind-bitten ranch hands their only taste of silk, perfume, and luxury. The good women of the Philomathean Society and the Twentieth Century Culture Club condemn her, yet her mansion fills a want the raw Territory has no other answer for. When Sabra watches Dixie's girls parade past the Wigwam office, her resolve hardens into a plan that will test the town's moral lines.

## Relationships

### [Sabra Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/sabra_cravat)

_friendship_

A saloon girl and friend who supports Sabra during difficult times, despite their different social standings.

### [Sabra Cravat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/characters/sabra_cravat)

_friendship_

A saloon girl and friend who supports Sabra during difficult times, despite their different social standings.

## In the story

### [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/chapters/xv)

Now a woman of thirty, she runs a red brick brothel that serves as a club and salon for men; Sabra condemns her in editorials.

### [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/chapters/xvi)

The defendant in the disorderly conduct case, all in black in the courtroom, facing expulsion from Osage.

### [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/chapters/xvii)

The defendant, a town woman on trial, pale and hopeless.

### [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/cimarron_se/chapters/xxi)

Strikes oil, retires rich, adopts a baby girl, but the child is taken away by local women; dies six months later of a broken heart.

## Links

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