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

ISBN: 1493050966

ISBN13: 9781493050963

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

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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...

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