She continued to follow gold strikes for the rest of her life, always a little bit too late and never striking the big bonanza, and always aware that she was blazing a trail for other women to follow. And I don't see why more women are not out in the hills. It ought to be as easy and natural for women to read rocks as it is for astronomers to read the stars. The day will come when they will not sneer at Miss Malcolm. They will not pick up their skirts when I come around.
Woman can endure as much as a man.
Comply with the law and you will have man's responsibilities and man's reward. From Alaska, Lillian traveled to Nevada to join the new gold and silver strikes at Goldfield and Tonopah in 1902. Since she had no money, she paid for her room and board along the way by telling the stories of her Alaskan adventures. She missed the heydays of the strikes at Goldfield and Tonopah, but while there she also tried to locate gold near Silver Peak in Esmeralda County. The gold she was looking for was not there.