After marrying Dodge Morgan in 1958, she moved to Alaska in 1959. She had a succession of journalism jobs, working as a writer for the
Juneau Empire, the
News-Miner, Jessen’s Weekly, the
Los Angeles Times,
National Geographic and the
Tundra Times. She worked for Inupiat artist and Tundra Times founder and editor
Howard Rock under an Alicia Patterson Fellowship and wrote a book about Rock entitled
Art and Eskimo Power. She was assigned to visit every Alaska village which was named in the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement and visited 207 out of 220. Her book
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush detailing the experiences of sex workers in Alaskan boomtowns of the era, made the
Los Angeles Times’ Best Nonfiction list in 1999 and got her named Alaska Historian of the Year. The
Alaska Historical Society named her Historian of the Year in 1998. Morgan was inducted into the
Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 She died in July 2022 in Anchorage and is buried in Fairbanks Birch Hill Cemetery. Her papers, including 69 spiral bound reporter’s notebooks, are held at the
University of New England. ==Bibliography==