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...
In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company ...
AtHoward Rock'sbirth, a shaman predicted thathe would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people from a controversial Atomic Energy Commission proposal to excavate a harbor near his native village with an atomic blast. "Art and Eskimo Power" chronicles the life of this influential and artist, editor, and founder of the Tundra Times under whose leadership the newspaper helped to organize Alaska s native people to press their aboriginal land claims...
AtHoward Rock'sbirth, a shaman predicted thathe would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard...
