Research Catalog
Two women in the Klondike
- Title
- Two women in the Klondike / by Mary E. Hitchcock ; introduction by Terrence Cole.
- Author
- Hitchcock, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1849-1920.
- Publication
- Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2005], ©2005.
Available Online
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
Text | Request in advance | F1095.K5 H58 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxix, 197 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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." "When Mary Hitchcock heard about the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898, she left her privileged city life for the wilds of Alaska, planning to stake her own claims. She persuaded her friend Edith Van Buren to accompany her, and the two began preparations for "roughing it." The "necessities" that they brought up the Yukon River to Dawson City, Canada, including a portable bowling alley, an ice cream maker, a Great Dane named Ivan, and a full-sized circus tent." "Hitchcock relates the struggles, surprises, and pleasures of traveling in the late nineteenth century. She describes in diary form the people she met and her impressions of rural Alaska and Dawson City. Hitchcock's account of the Klondike Gold Rush is an outrageous adventure for general readers, armchair travelers, and anyone interested in the lives of American women in the late 1800s."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Classic reprint series ; no. 9
- Uniform Title
- Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; no. 9.
- Subjects
- Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska
- Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon > Klondike River Valley
- Women pioneers > Yukon > Klondike River Valley > Biography
- Alaska > Gold discoveries
- Women pioneers > Alaska > Biography
- Castelmenardo, Edith Van Buren, contessa, -1914
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Biography
- Alaska > Biography
- Hitchcock, Mary E (Mary Evelyn), 1849-1920
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
- Note
- "This volume is an abridgement of the original 1899 edition."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 1889963682 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004029694
- OCLC
- ocm57373987
- SCSB-8414970
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries