The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900University of Alaska Press, 1999 - 390 páginas Among the throngs of gold-seekers rushing to Nome in the summer of 1900 was Elizabeth Robins, well known as an actress prominent on the London stage and on the brink of becoming well known as a novelist and journalist. She traveled alone to the north, seeking not monetary wealth but her brothers, Saxton and especially Raymond, her youngest sibling, whom she feared had fallen under the spell of a dubious religious persuasion. What she actually found provided the raw material for her writing and political activism during the rest of her life. This diary is one of the most engaging, witty, and readable of the accounts surviving from the turn of the century in Alaska and the Yukon. Robins not only reveals the perceptions of a woman facing new phases of her own life but also provides vivid portraits of people whose ideas and activities were transforming the north. |
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New York to Nome | 13 |
Arrival and Reunion with Raymond | 65 |
Camp Life and Town Life | 107 |
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Alaska Alaska Commercial Company Anvik Anvil Creek Arctic Circle beach boat breakfast brother cabin called camp Cape Nome Captain church Courtesy of Fales Dawson deck diary dine dinner Dyer Elizabeth Robins Eskimo Fales Library fellow flowers Fort Yukon Frederics give goes gold Holy Cross hospital Indian Jack McQuesten Jacksonville State University Judge Kepner Juneau Klondike later leave letter London look luncheon McKay Michael's miles miners mining Miss Benton Miss Cunningham Miss Lamont morning never night Nome nuggets picture Port Clarence published Raymond comes river Rowe sand Saxton says Seattle ship sister Skagway sluice stay steamer story Tacoma talk tells tent things told town tundra turn wait walk watch wife winter Wirt Wirt's woman wood write young Yukon Yukon River Zanesville