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Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918.

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In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude regales the reader with the colorful world of frontier life, rife with gamblers, prostitutes, and other denizens of the underworld. She advances our understanding of reform efforts in a community where law and order were as elusive as the gold that drew so many." - John C. Putman, author of Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

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      Publisher: MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma
      Publication Date: 8/22/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780806193168, 978-0806193168
      ISBN10: 0806193166
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      Gender studies, gender groups

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      Book Synopsis
      Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918.

      Trade Review
      In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude regales the reader with the colorful world of frontier life, rife with gamblers, prostitutes, and other denizens of the underworld. She advances our understanding of reform efforts in a community where law and order were as elusive as the gold that drew so many." - John C. Putman, author of Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

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