Good Time Girls of California: A Red-Light History of the Golden State

by Jan Mackell Collins

Book Overview

While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of nineteenth-century California. 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 other hazards...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493050966
• ISBN13: 9781493050963
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"