The lure of gold brought more than miners to what would later become Montana. Along with the miners came the merchants and the freighters and maybe most interesting, the women who knew that there was money to be made where the miners were bored and lonely.
I have just started reading Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana's Frontier, by Lael Morgan. It is a fascinating book that explores a part of Women's history that is usually only mentioned in passing. The author did a good job of researching the topic and presented the material in a very readable format. Ms. Morgan also wrote Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: Secret History of the Far North as well as several other books.
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