May Kellogg Sullivan’s memoir records her experiences traveling and living in Alaska during the gold rush era, offering an unusual woman’s perspective on a frontier environment dominated by male adventurers and prospectors. Sullivan writes with energy and humor about the practicalities, hazards, and rewards of life at the edge of the American frontier, documenting landscapes, people, and incidents that few women of her time would have witnessed firsthand.
Women’s travel narratives from this period are a valuable and often underappreciated genre of American historical writing. Download this free EPUB for an engaging and candid first-person account of Alaska at the turn of the twentieth century.