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Lädt ... Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondikevon Jennifer Alexandra Duncan
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Yukon Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike by Jennifer Duncan offers brief biographies of eight women who played significant roles in Dawson, Yukon Territory, during the Klondike gold rush. The author profiles Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack), Émilie Fortin Tremblay, Anna DeGraf, Belinda Mulrooney, Martha Louise Black, Klondike Kate Rockwell, Nellie Cashman, and Faith Fenton. These women truly led amazing lives; each had a personal drive that led her to ignore Victorian era constraints on the lives of women. A brief epilogue describes the lives of several women who are active in the Dawson community today. Assembled in one place, these biographies are inspiring, and provide welcome counterpoint to the common impression that all women who participated in the gold rush were dance-hall girls (or worse). Unfortunately, the author’s credulity leads her to accept the most extravagant claims made by these women – who were all experts at self-promotion. The author is a city dweller (Toronto), and is understandably impressed by the scenic beauty and the frontier spirit of Dawson. It may be hard to check the facts, when these women tried so hard to disguise their tracks. One indication of the depth of research is the author's breathless reporting of the claim by one current resident that she had all of her children reading by age two! This book was a good read overall, but I wish the author had dug deeper to describe the daily realities, rather than focusing on flamboyant highlights. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
She may have been holding a gun, or an axe, or her hiked-up skirts, but she was there, in the Klondike of the Gold Rush. And her decision to venture everything on the dream of northern gold was in every way bolder and riskier than any man's. In Frontier Spirit, Jennifer Duncan celebrates the lives of women who, in defiance of traditional expectations, left their homes, their families, and their professions, to make the arduous journey through a punishing climate and unfamiliar wilderness to seek their fortunes in the Klondike. The story of women in the Klondike begins with the strong and knowledgeable women who were there before the race for riches began -- First Nations women like Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical to the survival of her white prospector husband, and ultimately, to the discovery that sparked the Gold Rush. The white women who joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life: rich and poor, educated and illiterate, single and married. Wealthy socialite Martha Black left her world of comfort to pursue a career as a miner, mill manager, and politician on the northern frontier. Belinda Mulrooney, an Irish farm girl, arrived in Dawson with a quarter to her name but used her business acumen and canny resourcefulness to turn the shantytown into a city and herself into its richest woman. And then there's Kate Rockwell, a working-class girl from Kansas City, whose thirst for fame and adulation led her over the treacherous waters of the Whitehorse rapids and fired her ascent to the title of Queen of the Klondike. Duncan has spent the last five years experiencing Dawson City in all its seasons and, like the women who came before her, she has fallen under the spell of the North, coming to love its wilderness, its challenges, and its rugged glory. With remarkable empathy, imagination and personal insight, Duncan creates an engrossing portrait of the splendour of the Yukon, breathing life into the stories of the daring and diverse women of the Klondike and the grandeur of the adventurers who gambled everything to find their fortunes there. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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