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Author Morgan, Lael.

Title Good time girls of the Alaska-Yukon gold rush / by Lael Morgan.

Publication Info. Fairbanks [Alaska] : Epicenter Press, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  971.91 MOR    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  971.91 M82G    Check Shelf
Description 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [322]-345) and index.
Contents Introduction: Red lights in the Far North -- Pioneering prostitutes : slim pickings and tough trails -- The great Klondike stampede : Destination: Dawson -- Mining the Klondike kings : nuggets and nuptials -- The real working girls : suicides and successes -- Mae Field : to the police botter and back -- Corrine B. Gray : a lost race with fortune -- Klondike Kate Rockwell : an enduring chapter -- Nome's crokked gold rush : a second chance -- Fairbanks battling the odds : establishing the best line in the West -- Georgia Lee : Fairbank's most successful prostitute -- Richard Henry Geoghegan : the linguist who loved the ladies of the line -- The Callahans : the terrorizing teamster and the woman who bested him -- Tom Marquam : the lawyer who flouted convention and almost got away with it -- Sin in southern Alaska : bargaining for love -- Tough times in Fairbanks : marriages and migrations -- Edith Neile : there walked a woman -- Epilogue: The end of the line.
Subject Women pioneers -- Alaska -- History.
Women pioneers -- Yukon Territory -- Klondike River Valley -- History.
Prostitutes -- Alaska -- History.
Prostitutes -- Yukon Territory -- Klondike River Valley -- History.
Prostitutes -- Alaska -- Biography.
Prostitutes -- Yukon Territory -- Klondike River Valley -- Biography.
Alaska -- Gold discoveries.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Yukon Territory -- Klondike River Valley.
Added Title Good time girls
ISBN 0945397631
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