Clarence and Ethel Berry
The Berrys arrived in Seattle on the S.S Portland, a ship that carried almost two tons of gold. Because Ethel had gone north right after her wedding and returned a rich woman just over a year later, she was dubbed The Bride of the Klondike by the newspapers. The Berrys deposited their gold, visited with family, and returned over the Chilkoot Pass again in 1898 with the thousands of prospectors on their way to the gold fields.
They moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1902 and bought claims in the Fairbanks and Ester areas. After successfully mining for a few years they invested in oil exploration and founded the Berry Petroleum Company. Clarence died in 1930 and Ethel in 1948.
Hattie Wills
Hattie Wills staked the claim she wanted. She used the money she made from her laundry to hire men to work it and spent time fighting off claim jumpers. She eventually took out a quarter of a million dollars from her claim. Hattie returned to Washington and died on May 23, 1901.
Bibliography
Books
Backhouse, Frances. Hiking With Ghosts. Vancouver, British Columbia: Raincoast Books, 1999.
Berton, Laura Beatrice. I Married the Klondike. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 1954.
Berton, Pierre. Klondike. Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, 1972.
Berton, Pierre. The Golden Trail. Toronto, Ontario: MacMillan, 1954.
Cohen, Stan. The Streets Were Paved With Gold. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1977.
Maclean, Hugh D. Yukon Lady. Surrey, British Columbia: Hancock House Publishers, Ltd., 1985.
Mole, Rich. Gold Fever. Surrey, British Columbia: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., 2009.
Sawatsky, Don. Ghost Towns and Trails of the Yukon. Whitehorse, Yukon: Northbush Publications, Ltd., 1994.
Tuska, Jon, Editor. Stories of the Far North. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Wilson, Graham. The Klondike Gold Rush. Whitehorse, Yukon: Wolf Creek Books Inc., 1997.
Internet Websites
As Precious As Gold: Stories of the Gold Rush. Excerpts from The Bushes and the Berrys by Edna “Tot” Berry. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/tot4.html
As Precious as Gold: Stories of the Gold Rush. Belinda Mulrooney-The Richest Woman in the Klondike. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/belinda.html
As Precious as Gold: Stories of the Gold Rush. Extraordinary Women. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/women.html
Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Steele, Sir Samuel Benfield. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/steele_samuel_benfield_14E.html
Mysteries of Canada-Part 3: The Advent. http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/yukon/klondike-gold-rush-part-3-the-early-days/
Who Discovered Klondike Gold? Pioneers of the Klondyke (sic). http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/klondike/context/4184en.html
Wikipedia: 1890’s Western Fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890s_in_Western_fashion
An (sic) Klondike: The Real Characters of the Klondike. http://anklondike.com/the-history/
Yukon and Alaska Genealogy Center: Historic Yukon & Alaska Hotels, Roadhouses, Saloons & Cafes Index - Proprietors and Managers. http://www.yukonalaska.com/pathfinder/gen/rhse_ownersDG.html
More Books We Love Ltd novels by Joan Donaldson-Yarmey
Contemporary Young Adult
Crazy Cat Kid
Canadian Historical for Adults and Young Adults:
West to the Bay
West to Grande Portage
Mystery:
Gold Fever
The Travelling Detective Series boxed set
Science Fiction:
The Criminal Streak
Betrayed
Joan was born in New Westminster, B.C., Canada, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. She married soon after graduation and moved to a farm where she had two children. Over the years she worked as a bartender, hotel maid, cashier, bank teller, bookkeeper, printing press operator, meat wrapper, gold prospector, warehouse shipper, house renovator, and nursing attendant. During that time she raised her two children and helped raise her three step-children.
Since she loves change, Joan has moved over thirty times in her life, living on acreages and farms and in small towns and cities throughout Alberta and B.C. She now lives on an acreage in the Port Alberni Valley with her husband and three female cats.
Joan began her writing career with a short story, progressed to travel and historical articles, and then on to travel books. She called these books her “Backroads” series and in the seven of them she described what there is to see and do along the back roads of British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon, and Alaska. She has now switched to fiction writing and is proud to be one of Books We Love Ltd published authors.
Links
http://www.joandonaldsonyarmey.com
http://bookswelove.net/authors/donaldson-yarmey-joan/
http://thetravellingdetectiveseries.blogspot.com/
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