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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Small crease on back cover corner. Martha Black was an independent 32-year-old when she joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. Like other stampeders, she endured the grueling Chilkoot Trail, traveled by boat down the notorious Yukon River, and worked placer gold claims while living in a primitive log cabin. Eventually she became a successful businesswoman owning a mining camp and managing a sawmill. At the age of 70, she was elected to the Canadian Parliament. Martha Black is one of the North's most colorful characters.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 190 pp, b/w photos. Martha Black joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, hiking over the Chilkoot Pass. Her husband served as Yukon MP. when he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1935, she ran for and won his seat. He got better and she relinquished the seat in 1940. From 1935 to 1940, Black represented the Yukon in the House of Commons. She was the second woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. This is updated version of her autobiography, My Seventy Years, published originally in 1938. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good +. 4th Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Her Story from the Dawson Gold Fields to the Halls of Parliament '. The subject of this 190 page biography, Margaret Louise Munger, was born in Chicago in 1866. She went on to become a famous Canadian in diplomatic circles. In her private life she was a big lover of flowers. B/W photographs accompany text. LEARN about : Asulkan Glacier, corms, Burrard Inlet, and Sheep Camp. Cond : Paper wrapper is blue with a cameo photo of Martha in 1908. White lettering. Wear at fore corners. P/O name ahead of title page. Tight in binding. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 92) : " In the vicinity of Sicamous, at Maro Lake, I came upon my most thrilling floral find, only a hundred feet from the railway.Walking aimlessly along the tracks one beautiful June morning, my eye caught ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. B/W Photographs (illustratore).…

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 166 pages in very good condition. "Formerly My Ninety Years". Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Bound in beige card covers with black titles. Lightly worn around the edges. VG. Book.