Sex Work in Alaska's Gold Rush
6/23/202639 min
Why on earth would anyone make a perilous journey across wilderness and snow covered mountains, all because of a bit of gold?
This isn't Lord of the Rings, it's the Klondike Gold Rush, when an estimated hundred thousand people made the journey to goldfields. Among them, women.
But why did women make this journey? How much of their work was sex work?
Kate is joined by Brian Castner for this episode about life in the Alaskan Gold Rush. Brian is the author of ‘Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike’
This episode was edited by Hannah Feodorov. The producer was Sophie Gee. The senior producer was Freddy Chick.
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