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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest
A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
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eBook - ePub
Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest
A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska
About this book
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Prostitution in the Pacific Northwest
- Chapter 1 Camp Women of Washington
- Chapter 2 Scarlet Women of Seattle
- Chapter 3 Madam Lou Graham, Seattle’s Leading Strumpet
- Chapter 4 Josephine Wolfe of Walla Walla
- Chapter 5 Harry Morgan’s Tacoma
- Chapter 6 Sin in Spokane
- Chapter 7 Nellie Curtis, the Belle of Seattle and Aberdeen
- Chapter 8 Jane Barnes, First Maiden of Oregon
- Chapter 9 Astoria, “The Most Wicked Place on Earth”
- Chapter 10 Naughty Ladies of North Bend and Marshfield
- Chapter 11 Oregon’s Camp Followers and Circuit Riders
- Chapter 12 Copperfield, No Place for a Lady, or a Gentleman
- Chapter 13 Coquettes of Coquille and Other Places
- Chapter 14 Prostitution in Portland
- Chapter 15 Sirens of Salem
- Chapter 16 Gold Rush Girls of Alaska
- Chapter 17 The Demimonde of Dawson City
- Chapter 18 Klondike Kate of the Yukon
- Chapter 19 Soiled Doves of Skaguay
- Chapter 20 Dolly Arthur, the “Sporting Lady” of Ketchikan
- Chapter 21 Zula Swanson, “Alaska’s Richest Black”
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Author