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What does freedom cost when desire draws you into a world of frozen rivers and remote camps?
In A Girl of the Klondike, Victoria Cross brings romance into the hard landscape of the Yukon gold rush. A young woman stands at the heart of a story shaped by desire, survival and independence. Around her lies a world of snow, rivers and rough camps, where the search for fortune meets the demands of a cold, distant place.
Cross puts strong feeling at the centre of this frontier romance. Passion presses against hardship, while the wish for freedom raises questions about its price. Read it for that contrast: human wants against a harsh landscape, the pull of independence against the need to survive. This is a tale of emotion and adventure, rather than a precise record of the Klondike.
What you’ll discover
- A cold frontier Enter a Yukon landscape where long winters and frozen rivers make distance matter.
- Passion under pressure Explore the tension between strong desire and the hard demands of survival.
- The price of freedom Consider what independence asks of a young woman who steps beyond the usual path.
- Gold rush dreams Encounter a setting that draws prospectors, traders and dreamers in search of fortune.
- Feeling against the wilderness Discover the contrast between the warmth of passion and a cold, unforgiving world.
Who will love it
For readers who like frontier adventure, strong-willed heroines, and stories where love, conscience and money pull against each other, set in a snowbound mining camp with duels, sieges and endless Arctic nights.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A girl with pistols meets two men
- Talbot faces down a mutinous miner
- Katrine tends the sick in Good Luck Row
- Gold fever claims a woman and a man
- Stephen weighs a million dollars against a soul
- A bride in the gulch, a siege in the night
- What the story says about gold and freedom
- How the story is told
- The turn toward the Cock-pit
Who’s who
- Katrine PoniatovskyA fearless, sharp-shooting saloonkeeper's daughter of about nineteen who loves gambling and freedom and quietly cares for the sick.
- Stephen WoodA young English schoolmaster and would-be missionary who is torn between his faith, his love for Katrine and his hunger for his rich claim.
- Henry TalbotA reserved, well-bred Englishman who works the richest claim in the west gulch and keeps his past and his feelings to himself.
- Annie JohnsonA frail young wife from Devonshire who is wasting away in the next cabin and clings to the hope that her husband will strike gold.
- Will JohnsonAnnie's husband, a miner who came to the Klondike for gold and wants to make a strike before taking his wife home.
- Dick MarleyA huge, bitter miner on Talbot's claim who resents his employer after being cheated of his savings.
- DenbighTalbot's thin, loyal foreman, who sees a kinder side of his employer and fears for his safety.
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A Girl of the Klondike
by Victoria Cross · 1899
In a Dawson saloon, a girl with two revolvers meets a missionary-turned-miner and a cold, brilliant Englishman.
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A Girl of the Klondike is a short novel by Victoria Cross, set in the Yukon gold rush at Dawson City in the depths of an Arctic winter. It follows a saloonkeeper's daughter, two very different miners, and the fever for gold that bends everyone it touches.
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A girl with pistols meets two men
The story begins in the dark of an Alaskan winter. The mountain passes are closed by snow, and the gold camps are cut off. In Dawson, a glow of lamplight hangs over the town, and its talk is all of a strike made that afternoon. In the Pistol Shot saloon, Katrine Poniatovsky leans against the bar with a pair of revolvers in her belt. She is about nineteen, and she watches the crowd with weary scorn.
A shy young man named Stephen Wood stands near her. He came to the Klondike to do missionary work, but he now holds one of the best claims in the west gulch. Katrine teases him about setting religion aside until he is rich. Soon they are joined by Henry Talbot, the neighbor whose claim lies beside Stephen's. Talbot is tall, pale and finely mannered, and the three take to each other at once.
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What is A Girl of the Klondike about?
It tells of Katrine, a saloonkeeper's daughter in Dawson during the gold rush, and the two English miners who love and befriend her. It follows greed, love, and the harsh winter, and what each person gives up.
Who is Katrine Poniatovsky?
Katrine is a young, fearless woman who gambles, carries two revolvers and lives alone in Good Luck Row. She is also generous, helping sick neighbors and treating the miners with warmth and humor.
Where and when is A Girl of the Klondike set?
It is set in Dawson and the nearby west gulch in the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush, over one long winter. The gold fever of that time drives every character.
The author
Victoria Cross
English novelist
Victoria Cross was a pen name of Annie Sophie Cory (1868–1952), a British novelist. She was born in Rawalpindi, then in British India, and died in Milan, Italy. She wrote novels in English, including A Girl of the Klondike, which was published in 1899.
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