"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
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 booking gold camps of the Alaska and Yukon at the turn of the century. Leaving behind their hometowns and most constraints of the Victorian era, the "good time girls" crossed both geographic and social frontiers, finding freedom, independence, hardship, heartbreak, and sometimes astonishing wealth. These women possessed the courage and perseverance to brave a dangerous journey of more than a thousand miles, into a harsh wilderness where men sometimes outnumbered them more than ten to one. Many of these women later became successful entrepreneurs, wealthy property owners or 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.
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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
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