Klondike women : [electronic resource] true tales of the 1897-98 Gold Rush / Melanie J. Mayer.
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TextPublication details: [Athens, Ohio] : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c1989.Description: xi, 267 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN: - 0804009260 (alk. paper)
- 9780804009263 (alk. paper)
- 0804009279 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780804009270 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries
- Women pioneers -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley -- Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley
- Pionnières -- Yukon -- Klondike, Vallée du -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Pionniers -- Yukon -- Klondike, Vallée du -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel -- 1871-1905
- Klondike, Vallée du (Yukon) -- Découvertes d'or
- Nord-Ouest canadien -- Descriptions et voyages -- 1871-1905
- Alaska -- Descriptions et voyages -- 1896-1959
- 971.9/1 20
- F1095.K5 M29 1989
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257).
Gold rush beginnings -- Edmonton, the poor folk's way -- Steaming in via the all-water Yukon route -- Trekking the Chilkoot Trail -- Skagway, gold rush boomtown -- Packing on the White Pass Trail -- Shooting the Yukon headwaters' rapids -- Dawson, and then... -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
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