Contents

Map

Preface

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: Red Lights in the Far North

 

1 PIONEERING PROSTITUTES
Slim Pickings and Tough Trails

2 THE GREAT KLONDIKE STAMPEDE
Destination: Dawson

3 MINING THE KLONDIKE KINGS
Nuggets and Nuptials

4 THE REAL WORKING GIRLS
Suicides and Successes

5 MAE FIELD
To the Police Blotter and Back

6 CORRINE B. GRAY
A Lost Race with Fortune

7 KLONDIKE KATE ROCKWELL
An Enduring Charmer

8 NOME'S CROOKED GOLD RUSH
A Second Chance

9 FAIRBANKS BATTLING THE ODDS
Establishing the Best Line in the West

10 GEORGIA LEE
Fairbanks's Most Successful Prostitute

11 RICHARD HENRY GEOGHEGAN
The Linguist Who Loved the Ladies of the Line

12 THE CALLAHANS
The Terrorizing Teamster and the Woman Who Bested Him

13 TOM MARQUAM
The Lawyer Who Flouted Convention and Almost Got Away with It

14 SIN IN SOUTHERN ALASKA
Bargaining for Love

15 TOUGH TIMES IN FAIRBANKS
Marriages and Migrations

16 EDITH NEILE
There Walked a Woman

EPILOGUE: The End of the Line

Notes

Selected Bibliography