Author: Frances Backhouse
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN:
Category : Gold miners
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women -- entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists -- who played a critical role in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century.
Women of the Klondike
Author: Frances Backhouse
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN:
Category : Gold miners
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women -- entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists -- who played a critical role in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN:
Category : Gold miners
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women -- entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists -- who played a critical role in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century.
Klondike Women
Author: Melanie J. Mayer
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Publisher: Swallow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Frontier Spirit
Author: Jennifer Duncan
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385672462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
She may have been holding a gun, or an axe, or her hiked-up skirts, but she was there, in the Klondike of the Gold Rush. And her decision to venture everything on the dream of northern gold was in every way bolder and riskier than any man’s. In Frontier Spirit, Jennifer Duncan celebrates the lives of women who, in defiance of traditional expectations, left their homes, their families, and their professions, to make the arduous journey through a punishing climate and unfamiliar wilderness to seek their fortunes in the Klondike. The story of women in the Klondike begins with the strong and knowledgeable women who were there before the race for riches began -- First Nations women like Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical to the survival of her white prospector husband, and ultimately, to the discovery that sparked the Gold Rush. The white women who joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life: rich and poor, educated and illiterate, single and married. Wealthy socialite Martha Black left her world of comfort to pursue a career as a miner, mill manager, and politician on the northern frontier. Belinda Mulrooney, an Irish farm girl, arrived in Dawson with a quarter to her name but used her business acumen and canny resourcefulness to turn the shantytown into a city and herself into its richest woman. And then there’s Kate Rockwell, a working-class girl from Kansas City, whose thirst for fame and adulation led her over the treacherous waters of the Whitehorse rapids and fired her ascent to the title of Queen of the Klondike. Duncan has spent the last five years experiencing Dawson City in all its seasons and, like the women who came before her, she has fallen under the spell of the North, coming to love its wilderness, its challenges, and its rugged glory. With remarkable empathy, imagination and personal insight, Duncan creates an engrossing portrait of the splendour of the Yukon, breathing life into the stories of the daring and diverse women of the Klondike and the grandeur of the adventurers who gambled everything to find their fortunes there.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385672462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
She may have been holding a gun, or an axe, or her hiked-up skirts, but she was there, in the Klondike of the Gold Rush. And her decision to venture everything on the dream of northern gold was in every way bolder and riskier than any man’s. In Frontier Spirit, Jennifer Duncan celebrates the lives of women who, in defiance of traditional expectations, left their homes, their families, and their professions, to make the arduous journey through a punishing climate and unfamiliar wilderness to seek their fortunes in the Klondike. The story of women in the Klondike begins with the strong and knowledgeable women who were there before the race for riches began -- First Nations women like Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical to the survival of her white prospector husband, and ultimately, to the discovery that sparked the Gold Rush. The white women who joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life: rich and poor, educated and illiterate, single and married. Wealthy socialite Martha Black left her world of comfort to pursue a career as a miner, mill manager, and politician on the northern frontier. Belinda Mulrooney, an Irish farm girl, arrived in Dawson with a quarter to her name but used her business acumen and canny resourcefulness to turn the shantytown into a city and herself into its richest woman. And then there’s Kate Rockwell, a working-class girl from Kansas City, whose thirst for fame and adulation led her over the treacherous waters of the Whitehorse rapids and fired her ascent to the title of Queen of the Klondike. Duncan has spent the last five years experiencing Dawson City in all its seasons and, like the women who came before her, she has fallen under the spell of the North, coming to love its wilderness, its challenges, and its rugged glory. With remarkable empathy, imagination and personal insight, Duncan creates an engrossing portrait of the splendour of the Yukon, breathing life into the stories of the daring and diverse women of the Klondike and the grandeur of the adventurers who gambled everything to find their fortunes there.
Two Women in the Klondike
Author: Mary Evelyn Hitchcock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Tells the story of a New York socialite and her friend who braved the Yukon in 1898 in search of gold. In diary form, Hitchcock describes in detail the people they met and her impressions of rural Alaska and Dawson City.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Tells the story of a New York socialite and her friend who braved the Yukon in 1898 in search of gold. In diary form, Hitchcock describes in detail the people they met and her impressions of rural Alaska and Dawson City.
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
Author: Lael Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.
Two Women in the Klondike
Author: Mary Evelyn Hitchcock
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1889963682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This volume is an abridement of the original 1899 edition.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1889963682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This volume is an abridement of the original 1899 edition.
A Woman who Went to Alaska
Author: May Kellogg Sullivan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Narrative of author's visits in 1899 and 1900-01 to Dawson, Nome and Golovnin Bay.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Narrative of author's visits in 1899 and 1900-01 to Dawson, Nome and Golovnin Bay.
Gold Rush Women
Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613092975
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Read about the daring women of the Yukon during the gold rushes between the 1880s and early 1900s, and learn about the unique contributions each woman made.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613092975
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Read about the daring women of the Yukon during the gold rushes between the 1880s and early 1900s, and learn about the unique contributions each woman made.
I Married the Klondike
Author: Laura Beatrice Berton
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789120594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
First published in 1954, this is a true story of love and adventure which traces the history of Dawson City through the eyes of a young schoolteacher from Canada and the penniless Yukon miner she married... “This is a brave book. It is a record of a woman’s courage and devotion in a hostile land. It is the story of a refined and sensitive girl who found happiness the hard way, and triumphed over conditions that would have driven most women to distraction. It is also a tribute to a husband who with hand, heart and head was outstanding in a world of worthy men. “I have read many books on the Yukon, but this is different...It is the gallant personality of the author which shines on every page, and makes her chronicle a saga of the High North.” (Robert W. Service, Preface)
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789120594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
First published in 1954, this is a true story of love and adventure which traces the history of Dawson City through the eyes of a young schoolteacher from Canada and the penniless Yukon miner she married... “This is a brave book. It is a record of a woman’s courage and devotion in a hostile land. It is the story of a refined and sensitive girl who found happiness the hard way, and triumphed over conditions that would have driven most women to distraction. It is also a tribute to a husband who with hand, heart and head was outstanding in a world of worthy men. “I have read many books on the Yukon, but this is different...It is the gallant personality of the author which shines on every page, and makes her chronicle a saga of the High North.” (Robert W. Service, Preface)
Gold Diggers of the Klondike
Author: Bay Ryley
Publisher: Watson & Dwyer
ISBN: 9781896239293
Category : Dawson (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gold Diggers of the Klondike explores beyond the myths of the dance-hall girls and prostitutes of the Klondike gold rush, and uncovers the stories of the women who "mined the miners." In chronicling prostitution in Dawson city during the height and the decline of the rush, Ryley reveals that sexuality is an important aspect of the history of the Canadian frontier.
Publisher: Watson & Dwyer
ISBN: 9781896239293
Category : Dawson (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gold Diggers of the Klondike explores beyond the myths of the dance-hall girls and prostitutes of the Klondike gold rush, and uncovers the stories of the women who "mined the miners." In chronicling prostitution in Dawson city during the height and the decline of the rush, Ryley reveals that sexuality is an important aspect of the history of the Canadian frontier.