A Pioneer Woman in Alaska

Author accompanied her husband on journey from Chicago to Dawson City, Yukon Territory, overland 1897-99; narrative, based on her diary. “MUCH has been written in verse and song and even on the screen about the dance-hall girls or the glamour girls of the gold-rush days. They came with the stampede, and left when the free-money days were over. They played their part; let your imagination fill in the role, and give them praise for the good they did. The pioneer wives, though unsung, and for whom