Saloons, prostitutes, and temperance in Alaska Territory
By: Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780806146607
Subjects: Social life and customs; Bars (Drinking establishments); Temperance; Frontier and pioneer life; Prostitutes; Prostitution; Women pioneers; History
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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hell on earth, 1897-1898; title: Saloon reform, 1899-1901; title: A restricted district, 1901; title: Behind red curtains, 1901-1906; title: Nurturing vice, 1902-1905; title: Saloons and the working class, 1902-1908; title: The closing of the Seventh Avenue District, 1909-1910; title: The Alaska Street District, 1910-1914; title: Women's suffrage and the end of vice, 1910-1917; title: Retrospect, 1918.