Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest

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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest is written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1493038109 (ISBN 10) and 9781493038107 (ISBN 13).

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.