Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory

Description:

"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. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women’s political and economic power in the West."--

subjects: Social life and customs,  Bars (Drinking establishments),  Temperance,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Prostitutes,  Prostitution,  Women pioneers,  History,  Bars (drinking establishments), united states

Places: Alaska

Times: 20th century,  19th century