Two Women in the Klondike

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Excerpt from Two Women in the Klondike: The Story of a Journey to the Gold-Fields of Alaska HE story of Two Women in the Klondike, written by Mrs. Roswell D. Hitchcock, who with her friend Miss Edith Van Buren, braved all the hardships and dangers of a journey to the Klondike\and all the discomforts of a life along the very skirmish line of civilization'where the turn ing of a spade has oftentimes led to the discovery of a for tune, cannot fail to be most interesting and most instructive. Mrs. Hitchcock is the widow of the late Commander Ros well D. Hitchcock, of the U. S. Navy, who was the son of Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock, for many years President of the Union Theological Seminary, New York. Mrs. Hitchcock herself is descended from Lord fitzgerald. Her grandfather and father were born in Norfolk, Virginia, where many of her relatives now live and where the old family mansion is still a landmark, although it has passed into other hands. Miss Van Buren is a grand-niece of President Van Buren and daughter of General Van Buren, who was United States consul-general to Japan in the eighties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.