She was an American woman who gave up the life of high society, comfort and privilege to live the tough life of a miner in the wilds of the Yukon and northern British Columbia.
She was small and slim, with…
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It seems during those tumultuous years of 1898-1899, the Klondike Nugget newspaper didn't miss a story. So it's no surprise that the paper gave considerable coverage to the Princess of the Yukon.
Margie Newman was just nine years old,…
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When she was only ten years old, Marjorie Rambeau performed in the mining camps of Nome.
“...With my hair cropped close ...the men would shake gold dust into my cap, “ said Rambeau later in her career, “But nobody suspected…
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