Good Time Girls by Lael Morgan A secret history of the far north

Good used condition loaded with black-and-white photographs Engaging the written and generously illustrated for readers who like history with all the lusty and licentious parts left uncensored Approximately 350 pages Good times, girls is an important and entertaining addition to gold rush literature. These women are as important as the part of the Klondike story as big Alex and swift water bill after all they two were gold diggers “by Pierre Burton, author of Klondike. History has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the foreign north, the prostitutes and other disreputable women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming gold camps of Alaska and the Yukon at the tour of the century, leaving behind their hometown and most constraints of the post Victoria era the good times girls crossed both geographic and social frontiers finding freedom, independence, hardship, heartbreak, and sometimes astonishing wealth. These women possess the courage and perseverance, to brave a dangerous journey of more than 1000 miles into a harsh wilderness where men sometimes outnumbered them , more than 10 to 1 many of these women later became successful, entrepreneurs, wealthy property owners or the wives of prominent citizens one former prostitute married the mayor of Fairbanks and hosted a visit from President warren G Harding, their influence changed life in the far North forever