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Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory (Hardcover)
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Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory (Hardcover)
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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. 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. Where
most books about vice in the West depict a rambunctious sin-scape,
this one addresses money and politics. Focusing on the ambitions
and resources of individual prostitutes and madams, landlords and
saloon owners, lawmen, politicians, and reformers, Spude brings
issues of gender and class to life in a place and time when vice
equaled money and money controlled politics. Women of all classes
learned how to manipulate both money and politics, ultimately
deciding how to practice and regulate individual freedoms. As
Progressive reforms swept America in the early twentieth century,
middle-class women in Skagway won power, Spude shows, at the
expense of the values and vices of the working-class men who had
dominated the population in the town's earliest days. Reform began
when a citizens' committee purged Skagway of card sharks and con
men in 1898, and culminated when middle-class businessmen sided
with their wives - giving them the power to vote - and in the
process banned gambling, prostitution, and saloons. Today, a
century after the era Spude describes, Skagway's tourist industry
perpetuates the stereotypes of good times in saloons and bordellos.
This book instead takes readers inside Skagway's real dens of
iniquity, before and after their demise, and depicts frontier
Skagway and its people as they really were. It will open the eyes
of historians and tourists alike.
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