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Melanie J. Mayer - Klondike Women - 9780804009263 - V9780804009263
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Klondike Women

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Description for Klondike Women Hardback. Num Pages: 275 pages, 150. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 263 x 187 x 26. Weight in Grams: 912.

Klondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In the midst of a depression near the turn of the twentieth century, these women dared to act on the American dream. As they journeyed through the Northwest wilderness, they explored and extended not only the physical frontiers of North America but also the social frontiers about the “women’s place.”
Challenging the myth that the only women who participated in gold rushes were prostitutes and gold-diggers of the euphemistic sort, Melanie ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804009263
SKU
V9780804009263
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Melanie J. Mayer
Melanie J. Mayer is a professor of psychology and psychobiology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews for Klondike Women
“‘Profiles in courage’ may be an overworked phrase, but it fits this story exactly. Melanie Mayer has assembled a group of remarkable women and she uses many of their own words in chronicling their experiences in the last great trek of the nineteenth century. The book is not only enlightening about the various trails to the Klondike—the Chilkoot, the White ... Read more

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