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

"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

Author Lael Morgan introduces you to these women of the gold rush demimonde. Meet "Dutch Kate" Wilson, who pioneered many areas in the Far North 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 to become one of the wealthiest women in Alaska ... and Edith Neile, called the "Oregon Mare," famous for both her outlandish behavior and her softhearted generosity.

GOOD TIME GIRLS is an authentic, sympathetic, poignant, and often deliciously humorous account of women who were extraordinarily independent even by today's standards.

"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."
-- Pierre Berton, author of KLONDIKE