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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush Paperback - 1999

by Morgan, Lael

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Seattle, Washington: Epicenter Press, 1999. Large trade paperback. 351pp., Bibliographic References, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp copy. "Engagingly written and generously illustrated....for readers who like history with all the lusty and licentious parts left uncensored." [Seattle Weekly]. Very fine.. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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  • Title Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
  • Author Morgan, Lael
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Fine
  • Pages 354
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Epicenter Press, Seattle, Washington
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 007701
  • 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)
  • 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

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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About the author

Lael Morgan teaches web-based writing and journalism classes for the University of Texas from her home in Saco, Maine. A former associate professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she taught journalism through most of the 1990s, Morgan has been researching the history of the Far North for more than thirty years. She was named Alaska's Historian of the Year in 1988 for her research on this book. Her work has been published in the "Los Angeles Times "and "National Geographic," and she is the author of numerous other nonfiction titles, including "Art and Eskimo Power: The Life and Times of Howard Rock "and "Eskimo Star: From Tundra to Tinseltown: The Ray Mala Story."

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