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Author:

Hitchcock, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1849-1920.

Title:

Two women in the Klondike / by Mary E. Hitchcock ; introduction by Terrence Cole.

Publisher:

University of Alaska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xxix, 197 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hitchcock, Mary E.--(Mary Evelyn),--1849-1920.
Castelmenardo, Edith Van Buren,--contessa,---1914.
Women pioneers--Klondike River Valley--Klondike River Valley--Biography.
Women pioneers--Alaska--Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life--Klondike River Valley.--Klondike River Valley.
Frontier and pioneer life--Alaska.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.
Alaska--Gold discoveries.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Biography.
Alaska--Biography.

Notes:

"This volume is an abridgement of the original 1899 edition." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Ho for the land of gold! -- With malice towards none -- Land in sight! -- St. Michaels -- A trial of patience -- We meet old friends -- Transferred at last -- We hear the signal -- Up the Yukon -- Discomfort of barge life -- Nearing our destination -- The promised land -- We become squatters -- The "sick boy" -- Our first dinner in Dawson -- We become "free miners" -- Visiting mines with a Klondike king -- Our man Friday -- Isaacs, the irrepressible -- Our helpful neighbours -- A new scheme -- The rideout at last -- Trials of building -- Business propositions -- A new experience -- In the new home at last -- A series of disappointments -- Adieu to Dawson -- The race with the Domville -- The first portage -- The Skaguay Pass -- A day in Sitka -- Killisnoo -- Farewell to Alaska.

Series:

Classic reprint series ; no. 9

ISBN:

1889963682 (alk. paper)
9781889963686 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004029694

Locations:

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)