Martha Black: Her Story from the Dawson Gold Fields to the Halls of Parliament

by Martha Louise Black

Book Overview

Adventurous Martha Black headed for the Klondike in 1898. After working placer gold claims, she became a successful businesswoman, and was elected to the Canadian Parliament at age 70.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088240508X
• ISBN13: 9780882405087
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The best kind of history book

This is such a great book about frontier life by a real frontier woman. Her life was amazing. You get such a real sense of what life was like back then told, first had, not by someone else recounting Martha Black's thoughts, but her real words (I love the words of that time!) about her experiences, triumphs and tragedies. If you ever wanted to know what it was like for a middle class white women of independent mind to live in the late 1800's and the early half of the 1900's, both in the US and Canada, then this is the read for you.