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Title: A woman who went to Alaska
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Sullivan, May Kellogg
Subjects: Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : J. H. Earle & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to the sluice box as it was all paygravel. The owner refused five hundred thousanddollars for the property without considering theofTer. Tierney is authority for the statement that thisclaim produced four hundred thousand dollars thatseason. From this time the discoverers were known bythe sobriquet of the Lucky Swedes, for AnvilCreek was all good, there being no really poordirt in it, and number nine, above DiscoveryClaim, proved irself, the first summer, also a bannerwinner. It was here that we expected to work, as soonas supplies could be hauled to the claim, themonotony of bread making and dish washing tobe varied by the new and strange sights on anenormously rich gold claim not far from the ArcticCircle. Everywhere around us were carpenters ham-mers in operation, and tents were rapidly going up.We found great difificulty in reserving groundspace enough for another tent, as others found theSandspit as desirable for tenting as we did, andelbowed us closely. Along the rivers edge and
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0\ A Woman Who Went—To Alaska 117 the beach near by many were digging and paniniig-in the sands searching tor colors. Dog-teamswere hauUng freight and baggage, with their swear-ing and perspiring drivers at their heels, and whilethe big black-snake whips flourished in air abovethe dogs or upon their straining backs, the tonguesof the faithful brutes hung from their mouths, andtheir wide open eyes looked appealingly at by-standers. My heart ached for the animals, but therewere no humane societies in Alaska. About five oclock on Sunday afternoon it beganto snow. This was the first June snowstorm Ibad ever seen. Our little tent leaked badly, as ithad been hastily pitched, and the snow melted as itfell. Small rivers of water were soon droppingupon our heads. Rain coats, oilcloth, and openedumbrellas were utilized to protect the clothing andthe bedding. ^n hour of this experience would have beenenough for one time, but troubles seldom comrsingly, and so the wind began to blow. Donningher

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