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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

Name: Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
Brand: Epicenter Press (WA)
SKU: 9780945397762
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Contributors:

Lael Morgan

Publisher:

Epicenter Press (WA)

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Canada, United States, Women's Studies

Book Topic:

Post-Confederation (1867-), State & Local

Edition Description:

2nd Edition

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Release Date:

2018-08-30

ISBN 13:

9780945397762

Weight:

1.19 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 5.90 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

354

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History has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Klondike Gold Rush of North America-the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming gold camps at the turn of the century. Leaving behind hometowns in North America and Europe and most constraints of the post-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 into a harsh wilderness where men sometimes outnumbered them more than ten to one. Many later became successful entrepreneurs, wealthy property owners, or the wives of prominent citizens. Their influence changed life in America's Far North forever.

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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