One Woman's Gold Rush: Snapshots from Mollie Brackett's Lost Photo Album 1898-1899
"One Woman's Gold Rush" not only connects readers to an instrumental time in Alaska's history, it also draws us into the lives of one family who lived it  --Juneau Empire July 18, 1996Mary Brackett, a young bride when she made the journey, penned notes and dates beneath most of her snapshots, offering contemporary readers an interesting look at pictures of life in raw boomtowns. Mary was an adventurous woman who accompanied her husband on pack horse, somehow managing to keep up even though she wore the requisite long skirts. Her story shows that 19th-century women, far from being homebodies, were often by the sides of their men in dangerous and exciting landscapes  --St. Paul Dispatch, August 11, 1996There is something wickedly fascinating ... about looking through the photo album of a stranger. It's as if we really shouldn't be peeking into the intimacies of the life of a family we don't even know, but we can't help looking because curiosity drives us on. That's what is delightful about "One Woman's Gold Rush ..." The text and pictures work together so that by the time you finish the book, you feel no longer a stranger, but a friend of the Brackett family --Kalamazoo Gazette, December 21, 1996