Two women in the Klondike
| dc.contributor.author | Hitchcock, Mary E., author | |
| dc.contributor.author | University of Alaska Press, publisher | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-25T18:17:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.description | This volume is an abridgement of the original 1899 edition. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Two Women in the Klondike created a sensation when it was first published in 1899. The idea that two well-bred socialites could survive the dangers of the north thrilled nineteenth-century readers from San Francisco to New York. | |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 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. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | books | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/243774 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | University of Alaska Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska), no. 9 | |
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| dc.subject | Hitchcock, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1849-1920 | |
| dc.subject | Castelmenardo, Edith Van Buren, contessa, -1914 | |
| dc.subject | Women pioneers -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley -- Biography | |
| dc.subject | Women pioneers -- Alaska -- Biography | |
| dc.subject | Frontier and pioneer life -- Yukon -- Klondike River Valley | |
| dc.subject | Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska | |
| dc.subject | Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries | |
| dc.subject | Alaska -- Gold discoveries | |
| dc.subject | Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Biography | |
| dc.subject | Alaska -- Biography | |
| dc.title | Two women in the Klondike | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type | Image |
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