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Staking her claim : the life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska entrepreneur / Melanie J. Mayer & Robert N. DeArmond.
Van Pelt Library F1095.K5 M295 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayer, Melanie J., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mulrooney, Belinda, 1872-1967.
- Mulrooney, Belinda.
- Businesswomen.
- Women pioneers.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon).
- Alaska--Gold discoveries.
- Alaska.
- Women pioneers--Yukon--Klondike River Valley--Biography.
- Yukon--Klondike River Valley.
- Women pioneers--Alaska--Biography.
- Businesswomen--Yukon--Klondike River Valley--Biography.
- Businesswomen--Alaska--Biography.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Yukon--Klondike River Valley.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Alaska.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined through her legendary pioneering in the wilds of the Yukon basin to found towns and many businesses. She built two fortunes, supported her family, was an ally to other working women, and triumphed in what was considered a man's world.
- In Staking Her Claim, Melanie Mayer and R. N. DeArmond provide a faithful and comprehensive portrait of this unique character in North American frontier history. Their exhaustive research has resulted in a sweeping saga of determination and will, tempered by disaster and opportunity.
- Like any good Horatio Alger hero, Belinda overcame the challenges that confronted her, including poverty, prejudice, a lack of schooling, and the early loss of parents. Her travels took her from her native Ireland as a young girl to a coal town in Pennsylvania to Chicago, San Francisco, and finally, in 1897, to the Yukon.
- Staking Her Claim is a testament to the human spirit and to the idea of the frontier. It is a biography of a woman who made her own way in the world and in doing so left an indelible mark.
- Contents:
- 1 Ireland: Fostering Self-Reliance 1
- 2 Pennsylvania: Unhappiness, Deceptions, and New Opportunities 9
- 3 A Young Entrepreneur Exploits Chicago and the World's Fair of 1893 21
- 4 Launching into the Pacific Northwest 35
- 5 Chilkoot: Going In in 1897 45
- 6 Building Dawson 56
- 7 Grand Forks, the Heart of Gold Country 75
- 8 Mining in the Winter of 1897-98 95
- 9 Winds of Change 109
- 10 A Fair View in Dawson 120
- 11 The Skagway Caper 132
- 12 Racing with Winter 141
- 13 Charles Eugene Carbonneau 150
- 14 Belinda at Her Peak 160
- 15 Spring 1899 and Carbonneau A-Courting 178
- 16 The Klondike Rush Is Over 197
- 17 Belinda's Triumphal Tour 210
- 18 A Wedding 220
- 19 Carbonneau and Carbonneau 233
- 20 Mining Gold Run 246
- 21 Starting Over in Fairbanks 271
- 22 The Dome City Bank: Business and Funny Business 282
- 23 Retrenching in Yakima, Washington 300
- 24 The Notorious Charles E. Carbonneau 317
- 25 Belinda Matures 325.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-406) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804010218
- 0804010226
- OCLC:
- 41572708
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