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Readers who love firsthand travel accounts, frontier life, women's adventure stories, gold rush history and Arctic scenery, and who enjoy a cheerful, observant voice with plenty of everyday detail.
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Imagine stepping alone onto a Yukon steamer, bound for the gold camps, with a notebook, a camera and a plan to earn your keep. A Woman Who Went to Alaska grows from her diaries. It follows her from a train over White Pass to the sandy beach at Nome, and on to a winter on the Arctic coast. She cooks, sews, teaches and keeps a loaded revolver nearby, and she notes many prices, storms and strangers.
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- 1A lone woman heads for DawsonFree
- 2Dawson is rough, crowded and costly
- 3Down the Yukon to the sea
- 4A voyage out by way of Nome
- 5Landing at Nome and finding a way
- 6Cooking for gold and waiting out storms
- 7Winter at the Mission on Golovin Bay
- 8A teacher at the hotel and a frightening spring
- 9Going home and what the book shows
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A lone woman heads for Dawson
In the summer of 1899, May Sullivan travels from California to Dawson to join her father and brother. She takes a steamer north from Seattle and crosses the mountains by open flatcar on the new White Pass and Yukon Railroad.
The company is rough from the start. At the Skagway customs house, a trunk of Limburger cheese empties the room. She walks beside Miles Canyon and sees the white water of White Horse Rapids, where many earlier gold seekers drowned in their hurry.
She is not frightened of discomfort. A Seattle lawyer quietly looks after her, and she keeps her notebook close. Already you see the blend of curiosity and caution that carries her through the whole book.
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What is A Woman Who Went to Alaska about?
It is May Sullivan's account of two trips north during the gold rush. She travels to Dawson, works as a cook in Nome, and spends a winter at Golovin Bay, describing storms, camps, people and daily life.
Is A Woman Who Went to Alaska a true story?
Yes, it is a memoir based on the author's diaries from 1899 to 1901. She also includes a few tales she heard or adapted, which she marks as stories, so the rest reads as her own record.
Who is Mollie in the book?
Mollie is an Eskimo woman, called Angahsheock, who is married to a retired sea captain and runs a hotel at Golovin Bay. She hunts, traps and sews furs, and she becomes Sullivan's trusted friend.
Where does the story take place?
The book moves from Seattle and Skagway over White Pass, down the Yukon to Dawson, to St. Michael, Nome and Golovin Bay, then back by the Yukon to Seattle.
Is A Woman Who Went to Alaska easy to read?
Its short chapters, diary entries and lively scenes make it approachable. Sullivan writes in a warm, plain voice, with humor, clear detail and tales that vary the pace from chapter to chapter.