Ruth Fielding in Alaska
Subtitle: or, The Girl Miners of Snow Mountain
By: by Alice B. Emerson [pseudonym].
Series: Ruth Fielding #22
Publisher: Cupples & Leon Co.
Published: 1926
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Fielding, Ruth (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: When Mr. Hammond finds himself without an available director, he calls on Ruth Fielding to direct his current project.  Ruth willingly agrees, although she feels guilty about forcing Tom Cameron to wait even longer before their marriage.  After Ruth begins to direct Mr. Hammond's film, she discovers that some of the people she is to work with resent having a female director—especially the dwarf, Joe Rumph.

Rumph refuses to follow Ruth's directions, so she is forced to discharge him.  To make matters worse, Ruth discovers that her old enemy, Sol Bloomberg, is in Alaska, and Joe Rumph joins forces with him in a campaign to ruin Ruth's picture.  At first, the men's inference is limited to causing annoying delays, but soon the men resort to real vandalism.

In the meantime, Ruth befriends two girls, Mary and Ellen Chase, who are attempting to reopen a gold mine that was left to them by their father.  Ruth divides her energy between making her picture and helping the Chase girls.  Soon, Ruth learns that Joe Rumph and Sol Bloomberg are working with the man who is attempting to steal the Chase mine away from the girls.  Can Ruth find a way to thwart the attempts of the villains, finish her film, and bring happiness to the Chase girls?
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