BISBEE - Graphic designer Terry Wolf had an idea for a calendar. It would feature local women photographed in historical outfits and settings, and it would be erotic.

She just needed models. So, she turned to her 26-year-old daughter Bianca, who quickly recruited a number of her friends. The young women, however, had an even more adventurous vision for the project.

"Bianca told me, 'A lot of the girls, they want to show more,' " Wolf said.

And so was born "Girls Gone Gulch," a new 2007 calendar featuring 13 local women in various states of undress. Since hitting shelves in Old Bisbee a week ago, it's been a smash success, nearly selling out of an initial run of 300 copies. A second edition of 150 is already on order.

And while its name is a play on Bisbee's free-spirited Brewery Gulch area and the raunchy "Girls Gone Wild" video series, Wolf said the calendar is meant as a serious artistic expression.

"I wanted to do it in a way that honored women's beauty," she said. "It's not just a nudie calendar."

The digitally reproduced photos, all taken by Wolf, depict the women in settings that evoke the 1920s, the 1940s and the Victorian era. In one shot, a model is dressed as Salome, biblical daughter of Herodius.

The photos are all black and white, with bits of color added during editing.

And while each shot displays a considerable amount of bare flesh, not all of the women chose to reveal a breast or buttock. Ariel Robinson, the 22-year-old model who posed as Salome, said she was "too modest" to be photographed nude.

Plus, she said, she was worried her photo might be ogled by creepy guys.

Others, such as 21-year-old Tianya Shemanski, had fewer inhibitions. She posed topless on the back of a horse.

Tianya said her parents, who she described as "very open hippies," taught her to be comfortable with nudity. And as an adult, she had already posed for a number of local artists and photographers. "I'm used to being naked in front of a camera," she said.

Each model was allowed to decide for herself how much skin to expose, Wolf said. Sometimes, as in the case of her daughter, Bianca, the decisions were spontaneous and surprising.

Bianca had initially decided to pose for her shoot wearing a corset. But when she dropped her robe for the camera, she was wearing only panties.

"I said, 'I thought you were going to wear a corset?' " Wolf recalled. "She told me, 'I changed my mind.' "

Wolf said she first got the idea for "Girls Gone Gulch" during a visit to Ester, Alaska - an old mining town similar in history and character to Bisbee. While in Ester, she met a woman who worked at a local saloon and moonlighted as a graphic designer.

When the woman told her that she had produced a popular "Girls of Ester" calendar to promote her design company, Wolf decided she could do the same for her own business, SpiritChaser Design and Photography.

Now with the popularity of "Girls Gone Gulch," Wolf says provocative calendars will be a regular feature for SpiritChaser.

"Next year, we might do a pin-up theme," she said. "Or we may do guys or older women."