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Good Time Girls : Of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFitzhenry & Whiteside, The Limited
ISBN-101551109948
ISBN-139781551109947
eBay Product ID (ePID)102839681
Product Key Features
Book TitleGood Time Girls : of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicWomen, Canada / General, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Canada / Pre-Confederation (To 1867), Prostitution & Sex Trade
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorLael Morgan
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight20.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Number of Volumes1 vol.
SynopsisGood Time Girls is an important and entertaining addition to gold rush literature. These women are as important a part of the Klondike story as Big Alex and Swiftwater Bill. After all, they too were gold diggers. - Pierre Berton 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 booking gold camps of the Alaska and Yukon at the turn of the century. Leaving behind their hometowns and most constraints of the Victorian era, the good time girls crossed both geographic and social frontiers, finding freedom, independence, hardship, heartbreak, and sometimes astonishing wealth. These women possessed the 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 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., Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North., ""Good Time Girls" is an important and entertaining addition to gold rush literature. These women are as important a part of the Klondike story as Big Alex and Swiftwater Bill. After all, they too were gold diggers." - Pierre Berton 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 booking gold camps of the Alaska and Yukon at the turn of the century. Leaving behind their hometowns and most constraints of the Victorian era, the "good time girls" crossed both geographic and social frontiers, finding freedom, independence, hardship, heartbreak, and sometimes astonishing wealth. These women possessed the 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 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.
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- Oct 21, 2015
Good Time Girls
Reading the backgrounds of these women and what they had to endure was compelling. And seeing how they fit in the scheme of things was really interesting.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 04, 2017
Great book about how much women did for Alaska
Goes deep into women of the Gold Rush, many did well! Much more then dance hall girls#!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Apr 17, 2024
very good
very goodVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
