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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798033203321

Autore

Brackbill Eleanor Phillips

Titolo

The queen of heartbreak trail : the life and times of Harriet Smith Pullen, pioneering woman / / Eleanor Phillips Brackbill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut ; ; Helena, Montana : , : TwoDot, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4930-1914-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

979.8/03092

Soggetti

Women pioneers - Alaska - Skagway

Pioneers - Alaska - Skagway

Businesswomen - Alaska - Skagway

Hotelkeepers - Alaska - Skagway

Frontier and pioneer life - Alaska - Skagway

Skagway (Alaska) Biography

Alaska Gold discoveries

Klondike River and Valley (Yukon) Gold discoveries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Family Tree; Introduction; Chapter One: Queen of Heartbreak Trail; Chapter Two Wisconsin 1854-1869; Chapter Three Dakota 1869-1877; Chapter Four "Looking for Better Times"; Chapter Five Washington 1877-1881; Chapter Six Quillayute Country; Chapter Seven The Pullen Family 1881-1889; Chapter Eight The Quileutes; Chapter Nine La Push 1889-1897; Chapter Ten A Man with a Badge; Chapter Eleven Skagway 1897-1902; Chapter Twelve The Independent Entrepreneur; Chapter Thirteen The Pullen House; Chapter Fourteen New Century; Afterword; Appendix; Acknowledgments; Endnotes

Selected SourcesIndex; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

"The true story of Harriet Smith Pullen, a Klondike Gold Rush pioneer who in 1897 landed in Skagway, Alaska, broke and alone. Newly independent and empowered, she became an entrepreneur, single-



handedly hauling prospectors' provisions into the mountains where gold beckoned. As Skagway morphed into a tourist destination after the gold rush ended, she started the Pullen House, an acclaimed hotel, which she managed for fifty years"--Provided by publisher.