Alaska Gold Rush

Description

In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde, that ""half world"" of prostitutes, dance hall girls, and entertainers who lived on the outskirts of polite society. Meet ""Dutch Kate"" Wilson, who pioneered many areas 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 and became one of the richest women in the North ... and Edith Neile, called ""the Oregon Mare,"" famous for both her outlandish behavior and her softhearted generosity.

Reviews

Good Time Girls brought to life

by Lynne from Seattle on 1999-12-30
Lael Morgan does a great job of piecing together old newspaper articles and photos to recreate the lives of these adventurous pioneers. The stories from Dawson are especially detailed (due to the resources) and give you the feeling that you know what it was like to live and work in Dawson during the gold rush. Knowing that the characters in the book were real make the stories that much more compelling.

Best Of The West!

by Michael Valdivielso from Alexandria, VA on 2006-06-15
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 and most of the normal jobs didn't pay well. If a woman wanted the wealth and adventure she was searching for she ended up becoming a Good Time Girl. Men outnumbered women ten to one and were always willing to pay for the company. Dance hall girls and prostitutes were among the pioneers who opened the new regions, became rich entrepreneurs and powerful women who, in some cases, changed the towns for the better. But their history cannot be written in a vacuum. As many of them left behind no written records we have to use police logs, old photos and stories left behind by the more respectable women and men of the cities. The book deals with the conditions and events that made the Far North so much different from the lower forty-eight states where many of the women came from. Why did the cities, in many cases, allow a red light district? Why did they give them police protection? How did the women influence the towns and change the very future of the frontier? Why did so many women turn to be Good Time Girls? With tons of humor, happy endings and sad ones, the chapters within this book give a detailed look at the history of the independent women who faced hardships, lost fortunes and the dangers of a wild land to find a future.

Description

Alaska Gold Rush Sudoku is the perfect book for anyone who loves Sudoku and is crazy about Alaska. Full of Sudoku puzzles, and tons of Alaska trivia, you'll learn lots of interesting facts about the '49th Great State of Alaska' you can't find anywhere else. On each page is a full size puzzle, accompanied by an interesting tidbit about Alaska. Behind the scenes and on the cover is the 1999 award-winning Gold Rush Centennial Alaska License Plate design, created by Alaskan artist, Kathy Sarns. Sarns, known world-wide for her colorful Alaska bicycle jerseys lends her talent to this book providing the cover artwork and background for each puzzle page. This design won the "Best Plate in the United States" award for the best designed license plate in the country. Now you can hold this award winning license plate in your hand as you do these challenging Sudoku puzzles. This is the perfect puzzle book for anyone who lives in Alaska, loves Alaska, has lived in Alaska, is visiting Alaska or has ever dreamed of visiting Alaska. The puzzles were created by Alaskan Sudoku Artist Cheryl Kirk, a computer book author and award-winning journalist. 100 Puzzles from easy to difficult, along with lots of unusual Alaska trivia will keep you entertained for hours on end.