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Women of the Klondike

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Women played a critical role all through the gold rush, and that is the only book that brings to light the stories of these diverse women. Backhouse delves into the lives of women — entrepreneurs, nuns, doctors, nurses, journalists, and dancehall entertainers among them — who were caught up in the gold rush and lived amazing lives. Through letters, journals, newspaper accounts, and personal interviews, Backhouse explores all of their untold stories.

Some were reckless dreamers who headed north by myself. Others were on the lookout for fortunes, or husbands. Still others went to the Klondike to gain professional recognition. Many women found that conditions were vastly worse than they had expected — Lillian Oliver noted that scarcely a day passed all through her go back and forth to Dawson when she did not see a wooden cross marking the grave of a fellow traveller. Other women found success in the Klondike — Mrs. John N. Horne struck gold and commissioned a gold washboard broach in honour of the profession that had once supported her. These are but a number of the many fascinating characters whose lives were shaped and without end changed by the ordinary time and place.

When Frances Backhouse’s Women of the Klondike was once first published in 1995, it became a bestseller. This 15th anniversary edition is being released similtaneously Backhouse’s follow-up book, Children of the Klondike.

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