A Woman Who Went To Alaska

MAY KELLOGG SULLIVAN

Publication: James H Earle & Company, 1902, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Green pictorial cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, silhouette in black on the front cover of dog musher and team, and photograph of the author also on the front cover, 392 pp., preface, illustrated from photographs, maps, chapter decorations. First edition of this astonishing memoir of a young California woman heading to the gold fields of the Yukon and Alaska territories, staking mining claims, working menial jobs, worked at the Swedish Lutheran Mission School at Chinik, and eventually ends up in Dutch Harbor, and finally Nome. Of particular interest are the many photographs she snapped with her Kodak camera. After visiting her family in Dawson City, and surviving blizzards, she returned to Seattle in 1901, and published this account the year after. Trivial wear to the spine ends and corners else a near fine bright copy.