Bibliograph

Good time girls of the Pacific Northwest, a red-light history of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska, Jan MacKell Collins

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Good time girls of the Pacific Northwest, a red-light history of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska, Jan MacKell Collins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Good time girls of the Pacific Northwest

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1143314939

Responsibility statement

Jan MacKell Collins

Sub title

a red-light history of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska

Summary

As more and more pioneers braved the harsh, unforgiving conditions of moving West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Oregon, Alaska, and Washington State had their share of working girls and madams like Nellie Curtis and Klondike Kate who remain notorious celebrities in the annals of history, but Collins also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose roles in this illicit trade help shape our understanding of the American West

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Red-light history of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska

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