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<tr><td class="tb1"><h1 class="zerop">A Woman Who<br/>Went ———<br/>To Alaska</h1></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tb2"><h2 class="zerop"><small><small>By May Kellogg Sullivan</small></small></h2></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tb3"><small>ILLUSTRATED</small></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tb1"><small>Boston:<br/>James H. Earle & Company<br/>178 Washington Street</small></td></tr>
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<p class="center"><small><i>Copyright, 1902<br/>
By MAY KELLOGG SULLIVAN</i><br/>
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<i>All Rights Reserved</i></small></p>
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<h2><SPAN name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></SPAN>CONTENTS.</h2>
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<tr><td class="wo" colspan="2"><b><big>Chapter</big></b></td><td class="nu"><b><big>Page</big></b></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">I</td><td class="wo">Under Way</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_9">9</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">II</td><td class="wo">Midnight on a Yukon Steamer</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_19">19</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">III</td><td class="wo">Dawson</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_28">28</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">IV</td><td class="wo">The Rush</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_36">36</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">V</td><td class="wo">At The Arctic Circle</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_48">48</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">VI</td><td class="wo">Companions</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_58">58</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">VII</td><td class="wo">Going to Nome</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_78">78</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">VIII</td><td class="wo">Fresh Danger</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_81">81</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">IX</td><td class="wo">Nome</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_94">94</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">X</td><td class="wo">The Four Sisters</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_109">109</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XI</td><td class="wo">Life in a Mining Camp</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_131">131</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XII</td><td class="wo">Bar-Room Disturbances</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_149">149</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XIII</td><td class="wo">Off For Golovin Bay</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_162">162</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XIV</td><td class="wo">Life at Golovin</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_184">184</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XV</td><td class="wo">Winter in the Mission</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_199">199</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XVI</td><td class="wo">The Retired Sea Captain</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_215">215</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XVII</td><td class="wo">How the Long Days Passed</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_231">231</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XVIII</td><td class="wo">Swarming</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_247">247</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XIX</td><td class="wo">New Quarters</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_261">261</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XX</td><td class="wo">Christmas in Alaska</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_275">275</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XXI</td><td class="wo">My First Gold Claims</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_292">292</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XXII</td><td class="wo">The Little Sick Child</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_311">311</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XXIII</td><td class="wo">Lights and Shadows of the Mining Camp</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_325">325</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XXIV</td><td class="wo">An Unpleasant Adventure</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_340">340</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XXV</td><td class="wo">Stones and Dynamite</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_354">354</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XXVI</td><td class="wo">Good-bye to Golovin Bay</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_374">374</SPAN></td></tr>
<tr><td class="nu">XXVII</td><td class="wo">Going Outside</td><td class="nu"><SPAN href="#Page_379">379</SPAN></td></tr>
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<div class="trans1"><p class="trnhd">Transcriber's Note</p>
<p>Obvious printer errors have been corrected. All other
inconsistencies remain as printed.</p>
<p>A list of illustrations, though not present in the original, has been provided below:</p>
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<li><SPAN href="#cover">COVER</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i1">MAY KELLOGG SULLIVAN IN ALASKA DRESS.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i9">DAWSON, Y. T.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i12">CITY HALL AT SKAGWAY.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i15">PORCUPINE CANYON, WHITE PASS.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i18">MILES CANYON.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i25">UPPER YUKON STEAMER.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i28">FIVE FINGER RAPIDS.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i37">GOING TO DAWSON IN WINTER.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i46">A KLONDYKE CLAIM.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i51">EAGLE CITY, ON THE YUKON, IN 1899.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i56">YUKON STEAMER "HANNAH."</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i61">FELLOW TRAVELERS.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i74">ESKIMOS.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i83">UNALASKA.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i92">STEAMSHIP ST. PAUL.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i109">NOME.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i118">LIFE AT NOME.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i151">CLAIM NUMBER NINE, ANVIL CREEK.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i184">CLAIM NUMBER FOUR, ANVIL CREEK, NOME.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i193">MAP OF ALASKA.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i267">ESKIMO DOGS.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i284">WINTER PROSPECTING.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i293">AT CHINIK. THE MISSION.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i398">CLAIM ON BONANZA CREEK.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i407">ON BONANZA CREEK.</SPAN></li>
<li><SPAN href="#i412">SKAGWAY RIVER, FROM THE TRAIN.</SPAN></li>
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<h2><SPAN name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></SPAN>PREFACE</h2>
<p>This unpretentious little book is the outcome of my own
experiences and adventures in Alaska. Two trips, covering
a period of eighteen months and a distance of over
twelve thousand miles were made practically alone.</p>
<p>In answer to the oft-repeated question of why I went to
Alaska I can only give the same reply that so many others
give: I wanted to go in search of my fortune which had
been successfully eluding my grasp for a good many years.
Neither home nor children claimed my attention. No good
reason, I thought, stood in the way of my going to
Alaska; for my husband, traveling constantly at his work
had long ago allowed me carte blanche as to my inclinations
and movements. To be sure, there was no money
in the bank upon which to draw, and an account with certain
friends whose kindness and generosity cannot be forgotten,
was opened up to pay passage money; but so far
neither they nor I have regretted making the venture.</p>
<p>I had first-class health and made up in endurance what
I lacked in avoirdupois, along with a firm determination
to take up the first honest work that presented itself, regardless
of choice, and in the meantime to secure a few
gold claims, the fame of which had for two years reached
my ears.</p>
<p>In regard to the truthfulness of this record I have tried
faithfully to relate my experiences as they took place. Not
all, of course, have been included, for numerous and varied
trials came to me, of which I have not written, else
a far more thrilling story could have been told.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></SPAN></span></p>
<p>Enough has, however, been noted to give my readers a
fair idea of a woman's life during a period of eighteen
months in a few of the roughest mining camps in the
world; and that many may be interested, and to some extent
possibly instructed by the perusal of my little book,
is the sincere wish of the author.</p>
<p class="author"><b>May Kellogg Sullivan.</b></p>
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<h2>A WOMAN WHO WENT—TO ALASKA.</h2>
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