More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women (More than Petticoats Series)

By Cherry Jones and Cherry Lyon Jones

Book Overview

This book explores the lives of twelve distinctly different women who arrived in territorial Alaska by birth, choice, or chance. Meet Nellie Neal Lawing, a trapper, hunter, and musher, who as legendary "Alaska Nellie" entertained tourists in her Trophy Room when the Alaska Railroad made it an official stop; Benzie Ola "Rusty" Dow, who became the first woman to drive the Alcan highway delivering a load of cement from Fairbanks to Dawson in just seven days; and many other women who impacted the history of Alaska.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762737980
• ISBN13: 9780762737987
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: TwoDot
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Contributions--small and large

They did what they had to do to survive the environment and live a full life. "Remarkable" women to us. Just getting by to them. It is all a matter of perspective. They made homes, gardens and communities. Women who developed the wilderness and loved it. They wrote about the wilderness; talked about it; and fought to protect it. Native women who did not want their world enveloped, absorbed, and forgotten. Explorers who loved what they discovered and worked to settle it. The book describes itself as a "collection of brief and absorbing biographies". Once I started to read I could not put it down. Eloquently written. I must now read the rest of the "More than Petticoats" series. After all, people are what history is all about.