Women's Gold Rush

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Jane G. Haigh and Claire Rudolf Murphy have compiled a book about women of Alaska that is both concise and comprehensive. Glancing through this slim volume reveals a starting place on every page and creates an urge to read it all in one sitting. That would be a mistake, however, since the history contained in the pictures, biographical sketches, journal excerpts, maps, and historical cameos deserves to be savored in small slices and contemplated at length. Haigh and Murphy not only catalog names...

Seven to ten percent of the Alaskan gold rush were women. Yet, their stories have remained virtually buried in family trunks, old newspapers, and museum archives. "Gold Rush Women" is a photo-rich compilation of the stories of twenty-five women. These women were of all ages, physiques, talents, and upbringings. Their one universal quality was the seeking of adventure, the desire to escape the economic doldrums of the United States in an age that constrained women and kept them financially dependent...

This book gathers the riveting stories of adventurous women-miners, madams, merchants, and mothers-who went North during the gold rush era. . . The enterprising women who ventured to the Yukon and Alaska during the many gold rushes between the 1880s and early 1900s remain relatively unknown. We're familiar with the tales of the men who swarmed the wild North Country in search of fortunes in gold, but the adventures of their female counterparts make for stories as riveting as anything Jack London...

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