Julia McNair Wright (1804–1903)

First Woman on National Geographic Board, and sponsored by Presbyterian Church, visits Alaska before Klondike period (1883) Decorated cloth hardcover in good condition without DJ.$65- 2018. Book includes observations of Tlingit life in trader period of Alaska territory not long after purchase from the Russians. Focus is often on hardships and mistreatment of tribal women and girls, and the struggle by missionaries to educate the tribes with the Bible and other literature. Compare this early Suffrage Women movement literature to novel Ramona, published by Helen Hunt Jackson in 1884.… (altro)