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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780945397762 Edition: 2nd ISBN: 0945397763 Label: Epicenter Press Manufacturer: Epicenter Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: June 01, 2003 Publisher: Epicenter Press Studio: Epicenter Press Editorial Review: Product Description: Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Well researchedI had to read this for a book club and didn't make it all the way through. I will give credit for a well researched book. It is a history of endless short accounts of the miners and the women who serviced them. While there are a few interesting characters, the information was limited and left you wanting to know more of the story. This will be of interest of someone who studies the history or who has visited Alaska and seen the locales of the stories to make a connection. Rating:  - Best Of The West!The Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, a time at the turn of the century, when the gold camps were booming and the dust flowed like wine. Leaving behind law and many of the constraints of the Post-Victorian era, men and women went north to find adventure and wealth. Most found death among the cold frozen mountains and rivers but a few survived to find money, power and, sometimes, even love. The women found it easier to mine the miners then to mine the mines. Women couldn't work claims in most cases ... Read More Rating: - Not Real InterestingI was disappointed in this book, it seemed more like a history of the men of the Yukon and Gold Rush . There were some stories about some of these women in there, but they were not very interesting to me, just sort of dry and lacking the quality that you could see and picture the people-which is a quality I look for in books of a historical nature. If you like just a history of cut and dry facts about the Gold Rush and the men etc., this might be ok, but overall, the book failed to be interesting ... Read More Rating:  - Interesting side to the "gold miners"Well, the men mined the gold, and the women mined the miners. All had unhealthy jobs but it would appear that more womem made money than the men from this book. It is also interesting that many of the women ended their trade by marrying the miners. So while to some they were "soiled doves" to the miners they were princesses. Still interesting that the town tollerated this business until very recently. An enjoyable read. Rating: - Fun history of the world's (c)oldest profession in AKI bought this book at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks bookstore. My dad, Class of '51 at UAF (we were there for his 50th reunion), had told me some stories about "The Line" and he had had his first job with the gold mining operations, so I was curious. There's not a lot of gory detail here. It's about people and places, but it's quite a colorful history. Though never officially legal, prostitution was tolerated and it flourished in Alaska for more than 50 years. And some very famous characters ... Read More |
