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.