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Two women in the Klondike  Cover Image Book Book

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

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  • ISBN: 9781889963686 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781552382356 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1889963682 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1552382354 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xxix, 197 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2005.

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General Note:
"This volume is an abridgement of the original 1899 edition."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Hitchcock, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1849-1920.
Castelmenardo, Edith Van Buren, contessa, d. 1914.
Women pioneers > Yukon > Klondike River Valley > Biography.
Women pioneers > Alaska > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon > Klondike River Valley.
Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries.
Alaska > Gold discoveries.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Biography.
Alaska > Biography.

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