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More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women (More than Petticoats Series)
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by Cherry Jones
Sales Rank: 123464
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Discount: 62 %
List Price: $10.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 144 pages
Published by: TwoDot; First edition March 1, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0762737980
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0762737987
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 6.4 ounces
Book Description
This book explores the lives of twelve distinctly different women who arrived in territorial Alaska by birth, choice, or chance. Meet Nellie Neal Lawing, a trapper, hunter, and musher, who as legendary "Alaska Nellie" entertained tourists in her Trophy Room when the Alaska Railroad maid it an official stop; Benzie Ola "Rusty" Dow, who became the first lady to drive the Alcan highway delivering a load of cement from Fairbanks to Dawson in just seven days; and many other women who impacted the History of Alaska.
Back Cover Copy
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women profiles the lives of twelve spirited women born in the nineteenth century, all of whom expanded women’s roles by defying the social norms and prejudices of their time.
Meet “Tillie” Paul Tamaree, the first Tlingit lady to be ordained an elder in the Synod of Alaska-Northwest; Nellie Neal Lawing, a trapper, hunter, and musher, who as legendary “Alaska Nellie” entertained tourists in her Trophy Room; and Benzie Ola “Rusty” Dow, the first lady to drive the Alcan Highway from Fairbanks to Dawson, delivering a load of cement in just seven days.
Each of these women—who arrived in territorial Alaska by birth, choice, or chance—demonstrated a remarkable determination and independence of spirit that continues to inspire new generations. Read about their extraordinary lives in this collection of brief and absorbing biographies.
Reader Reviews
They did what they had to do to survive the environment and live a full life. "Remarkable" women to us. Just getting by to them. It is all a matter of perspective. They made homes, gardens and communities. Women who developed the wilderness and loved it. They wrote about the wilderness; talked about it; and fought to protect it. Native women who did not want their world enveloped, absorbed, and forgotten. Explorers who loved what they discovered and worked to settle it. The book describes itself as a "collection of brief and absorbing biographies". Once I started to read I could not put it down. Eloquently written. I must now read the rest of the "More than Petticoats" series. After all, people are what history is all about.
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