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Gold rush queen : the extraordinary life of Nellie Cashman / Thora Illing.

by Illing, Thora.

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TouchWood Editions, 2016.

978.02092 C338i

Cashman, Nellie, 1844-1925.

Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.

Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)

Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Tombstone.

West (U.S.) -- Biography.

Tombstone (Ariz.) -- Biography.

9781771511599 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Extraordinary life of Nellie Cashman

213 p. : ill., portraits ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Early years -- The Southwest -- The Cassiar -- Arizona -- Baja and Tombstone -- Restless feet -- The Klondike trail -- Dawson -- Alaska.

"While demure ladies wore tight corsets and entertained one another at tea, the intrepid Nellie Cashman (1845-1925) trekked for hundreds of miles through blizzard conditions to deliver food and supplies to trapped miners in northern BC. A fascinating individual with an extraordinary life, she was a well-loved miner, a savvy entrepreneur, and a generous philanthropist who lived and worked in the roughest boomtowns in the West. Follow her along the trails she blazed - from the streets of San Francisco to the silver mines of Pioche, Nevada, from the lush coastal city of Victoria to the wilderness of northern BC, and from Tombstone, Arizona, to Dawson City in the Yukon."--From publisher.

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