Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush.

Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush. by Lael Morgan. Published by Epicenter Press, Fairbanks, AK, 1998. 1st Edition 6th Printing. Paperback. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Good. Edge wear to covers, scratch on title page where label removed, last page top outside corner torn off, effects 8-10 lines in ''W'' index section. Overall content excellent. 352 Pgs. ISBN 0945397763. Illustrated with black and white photos. 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 booming gold camps of Alaska and the Yukon at the turn of the last century. The ''good time girls'' crossed both geographic and social frontiers, finding freedom, independence, hardship, heartbreak, and sometimes astonishing wealth. The author offers an authentic, sympathetic, poignant, and often deliciously humorous account of women who were extraordinarily independent even by today's standards. Description text copyright 2015 BooksForComfort. Item ID 30598.