Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush Paperback - 2018
by Lael Morgan
First line
The Far North has two histories, a secret one in which-just like life-anything goes, and a conventional "on the record" version where propriety is prerequisite for starring roles.
From the rear cover
History has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Far North - the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming gold camps of Alaska and the Yukon at the turn of the century. Leaving behind their hometowns and most constraints of the post-Victorian era, the "good time girls" crossed both geographic and social frontiers, finding freedom, independence, hardship, heartbreak, adn sometimes astonishing wealth. These women posessed teh courage and perseverance to brave a dangerous journey of more than a thousand miles, into a harsh wilderness where men sometimes outnumbered them more than ten to one. Many of these women later became successful entrepreneurs, wealthy property owners, or the wives of prominent citizens; one former prostitute married the mayor of Fairbanks and hosted a visit from President Warren G. Harding. Their influence changed life in the Far North forever. Lael Morgan offers an authentic, sympathetic, poignant, and often deliciously humorous account of women wh were extraordinarily independent even by today's standards.
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- Title Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
- Author Lael Morgan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 354
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Epicenter Press (WA), Fairbanks, Alaska
- Date 2018-08-30
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780945397762 / 0945397763
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Geographic Orientation: Yukon
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code 971.91
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