Threads of Alaskan gold

The author left Seattle in the spring of 1897 and made her entry into Alaska at Skagway. The seven weeks it took to cover the portage of forty miles to Lake Bennett were days of horror and hardship. From Lake Bennett she sledded down the Yukon until the ice rotted, then travelled by boat through White Horse Rapids and Miles Canyon, and after surmounting many dangers finally reached Dawson City. At this camp, among many other activities, she became a dressmaker to some of the female entertainers, otherwise known as "chippies". She left Dawson for Nome and gives a description of that maelstrom. Becoming tired of life in mining camps, she returned to the United States.