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Staking her claim : the life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska entrepreneur
- Title
- Staking her claim : the life of Belinda Mulrooney, Klondike and Alaska entrepreneur / Melanie J. Mayer & Robert N. DeArmond.
- Author
- Mayer, Melanie J., 1945-
- Publication
- Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F1095.K5 M295 2000 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- DeArmond, R. N.
- Description
- xxii, 415 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined through her legendary pioneering in the wilds of the Yukon basin to found towns and businesses. She built two fortunes, supported her family, was an ally to other working women, and triumphed in what was considered a man's world. Belinda overcame the challenges that confronted her, including poverty, prejudice, a lack of schooling, and the early loss of her parents.
- Her travels took her from her native Ireland as a young girl to a coal town in Pennsylvania, to the Chicago Exposition of 1893, to San Francisco, to Alaska, to the Yukon gold rush, and to Paris."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Frontier and pioneer life > Yukon > Klondike River Valley
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) > Gold discoveries
- Women pioneers > Alaska > Biography
- Mulrooney, Belinda, 1872-1967
- Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska
- Businesswomen > Yukon > Klondike River Valley > Biography
- Businesswomen > Alaska > Biography
- Alaska > Gold discoveries
- Women pioneers > Yukon > Klondike River Valley > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-406) and index.
- ISBN
- 0804010218 (acid-free paper)
- 0804010226 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 99036187
- OCLC
- ocm41572708
- SCSB-8418666
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries