More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women (More than Petticoats Series)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920.7209798 EAN: 9780762737987 ISBN: 0762737980 Label: TwoDot Manufacturer: TwoDot Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2006-03-01 Publisher: TwoDot Studio: TwoDot
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Editorial Reviews: 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 woman 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.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Contributions--small and large Comment: 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. More Reviews