num_pages: 144
description: This book explores the lives of twelve distinctly different women who arrived in territorial Alaska by birth, choice, or chance. Meet Nellie Neal Lawing, a trapper, hunter, and musher, who as legendary "Alaska Nellie" entertained tourists in her Trophy Room when the Alaska Railroad maid it an official stop; Benzie Ola "Rusty" Dow, who became the first woman to drive the Alcan highway delivering a load of cement from Fairbanks to Dawson in just seven days; and many other women who impacted the history of Alaska.
language: English
title: More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women
titlecomplete: More than Petticoats: Remarkable Alaska Women (More than Petticoats Series)
genres: History
ratings_count: 23
series: More than Petticoats
publisher: TwoDot