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April 26, 2023 27 mins
Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In Ah Toy’s final episode, we will finish the story of the true pioneer of San Francisco’s Chinatown, Ah Toy, whose story highlights important aspects of the role the Chinese immigrants played in America’s Largest Migration, The Gold Rush. Find the Spotify Playlist - Shelter in Place/Quarantine curated just for my listeners. You do not need a Spotify account to listen. Sponsors www.facebook.com/ColumbiaMercantile1855/ www.thebop209.com Ways to Support the QOTM family during the coronavirus Venmo @queensofthemines Cash App @queensofthemines www.queensofthemines.com youniqueproducts.com/queensofthemines Resources Jacqueline Baker Barnhart, Working Women: Prostitution in San Francisco From the Gold Rush to 1900 (Santa Cruz: University of California Santa Cruz, 1977) Mud, Blood and Gold: San Francisco in 1849 (San Francisco: Heritage House Publishers, 2009) Joann Levy, They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California GoldRush (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000) Unsubmissive Women The Bawdy House Girls: A Look at the Brothels of the Old West By Alton Pryor Historic Spots In California BY Mildred Brooke Hoover, Hero Eugene and Ethel Grace Rensch, William N Abeloe revised by Douglas E Kyle Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong ... By Elizabeth Sinn The White Woman’s Burden Chinese Prostitution in San Francisco THE CHINESE by Henry Kittredge Norton The California Gold Rush: A Sexual Nightmare for Minority Women A short history of bordellos in San Francisco, part 2 Ah Toy - The Oldest Profession Podcast Badass Ladies Of Chinese History: Ah Toy Wild West Women: Ah Toy – A China Blossom in Old San Francisco A Gutsy Chinese `Working Girl‘ in Gold Rush San Francisco HISTORICAL HOTTIES ”The Best Bad Things”: An Analytical History of the Madams of Gold Rush San Francisco The Hakka People San Francisco’s Chinatown was a seedy ghetto. Chinese Deathscape; From Cradle to Grave The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920) by Lothrop Stoddard https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1372091610
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