Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: A Secret History of the Far North - Softcover

Morgan, Lael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0945397763 ISBN 13: 9780945397762

Verlag: Epicenter Press, Incorporated, 1998

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Book by Morgan Lael

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"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."

--Klondike historian Pierre Berton

"One of the 10 best non-fiction books of 1998."

--LA Times

..".Fascinating reading...the abundant, luscious photographs of these amazing women, the 'cribs' from which they worked, their customers, their lovers, and the frontier towns they helped to pioneer are themselves worth the price of the book."

--Linda Jaivin, Los Angeles Times

Reseña del editor:

In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde, that "half world" of prostitutes, dance hall girls, and entertainers who lived on the outskirts of polite society. Meet ""Dutch Kate"" Wilson, who pioneered many areas long before the "respectable" women who received credit for getting there first... ruthless heartbreakers Cad Wilson and Rose Blumkin... ""French"" Marie Larose, who auctioned herself off as a wife to the highest bidder ... Georgia Lee, who invested her earnings wisely and became one of the richest women in the North... and Edith Neile, called "the Oregon Mare," famous for both her outlandish behavior and her softhearted generosity.

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• Verlag: Epicenter Press, Incorporated
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0945397763
• ISBN 13: 9780945397762
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352