Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush Quotes

“Don't throw your life away because of one man. Don't make yourself something he will always be glad he was rid of. Make yourself something he will wish he had kept.”
― Lael Morgan, Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: A Secret History of the Far North

“It's this way. When a fellow gets out on the creeks, he's so busy and has so much to be thinking about all the time that he doesn't have much chance to worry about women, especially with all the hard physical labor involved,' an old-timer told Marshall. 'It's only when a man's mind hasn't got anything to occupy it and his body's got nothing to get it tired that he can't get along without any women.”
― Lael Morgan, Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: A Secret History of the Far North

“Wild excitements, misery, riches, debauchery, broken hearts, scurvy, frostbite, suicide, the midnight sun, the Arctic night, the Aurora Borealis, the land of gold and paradoxes--that was Dawson in '98,' he wrote breathlessly.”
― Lael Morgan, Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush: A Secret History of the Far North